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would win iowa. and what an extraordinary night here in des moines. welcome to abc news s special coverage of the iowa caucuses which basically ended in a dead heat. iowa gop chairman matt strong making the announcement that governor mitt romney, former governor romney, won the iowa caucuses by eight votes. but the tone was a bit more subdued by the time mitt romney officially clinched the gop nomination. he goes over the top with 1,144 plus delegates he needs to get the nomination in tampa. texas did it for him. this is not a surprise. once everybody else was effectively out of the race, and frankly before everybody else was out of the race, you could do the math pretty easily. now we re in the dog days of the campaign and coincidentally or not, cable news ratings are down. fox news down nearly 250,000 viewers in primetime since january, but from a much higher base of almost two million viewers. msnbc down 130,000 in primetime and cnn has been hardest hit d ....

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