Santorum beats Romney in Iowa

Remember how in the Iowa caucus, Romney managed to just squeak by with just 8 votes over Santorum. Did that seem really, really close to anyone else? Was anyone else just a little suspicious, having lived though such events as the Bush/Gore/Florida fiasco, that there might be some margin of error in the counting?

Well, there has been a retally and turns out Romney lost, and not by 8 votes. Santorum actually surpassed Romney by four-times that amount with 34 votes. However, Iowa GOP is calling the race a tie, because votes from eight of Iowa's 1,774 precincts could not be officially certified.

What I find interesting about this whole turn of events is that with the first count no one even mentioned the word "tie." There was discussion over Romney winning by such a small margin, but it was very clear in everyone's mind that Romney had ultimately won Iowa. Now that it in fact turns out Romney was not the winning, the vote is considered a "tie."

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, and there has DEFINITELY been no evidence discovered of any conspiring having taken place, nor am I suggesting there is. But it seems very clear to me that the powers that be within the GOP are interested in tilting the favor in Romney's direction. I think they realize now that with the Tea Party they've created a golem-like beast that they cannot control and so have no interest in a Santorum or, God-save-them, a Paul. Gingrich has a lot of enemies within the GOP for his antics and Perry, who will likely be leaving the race later today, can barely string a coherent thought together. Romney is their only option. An option they taken begrudgingly, but an option they take.