chairman declared that night, mitt romney the winner. he said mitt romney had won over ron paul by 194 votes. at the time, this seemed like great news for mitt romney. who was coming off losses in missouri, machine minnesota colorado. turn around, he announced romney won even though an entire county and several towns had not voted and a dozen towns that had voted nevertheless got recorded in th having zero votes. other town results landed in the e-mail in box. he asked the towns to e-mail him the results asome ended up in junk mail. when republicans confronted him he told them to go stick their heads in an ice fishing hole. then he had in fact recorded the result gs from the one count that voted that showed up with the zeroes, he said he had counted those votes, he had them but wasn t going to tell anybody what the results were.
by super tuesday we will be right back in the middle. in the news that is damaging to the entire process, pressure is mounting for the main republican party to reconsider the results of the caucus. remember mitt romney narrowly beat ron paul with 39% of the vote, but it s not just that one county whose caucus was delayed where the results were not counted. according to town by town results, some communities that had caucused before february 11th were not counted and nearly all the towns were blanked in the results released by the state party. iowa couldn t figure out how to count. maine is struggling. nevada was not close, but they had a counting problem. don t be surprised if this creates a call to get rid of caucuses and the reason for caucuses is because it does save money. states don t always fund