GOP front-runner Mitt Romney only beat Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucus by eight votes. That's a pretty big deal for the un-Google-able sweater-vest afficionado, and I have to admit, I'm pretty happy with that result. My former Senator is a big favorite of this blog because he's a great snark target. He makes fresh awful all the time, whether it's vowing to annul the marriages of same-sex partners, or saying states should have the right to ban birth control, or just dozens and dozens of other horrible-sounding things.
Despite being awful in what he says and believes, Iowa has given him the gift of viability, just as surely as the campaigns of Michele Bachmann (who I thought might actually come in ahead of Perry, whose campaign has been marred by his opening his mouth and letting words come out) and Rick Perry (who will be going on the South Carolina)have basically been given the hard way to go. And since Bachmann and Perry were the other theocrat candidates, I'm guessing a lot of their supporters might just go Santorum's way, keeping his campaign going despite being low on donations and interest at first.
Also, I think he might benefit from a volatile Newt Gingrich who looks to be raring to go negative on Romney. Gingrich has a knack for the negative, and this can not help Romney's favorables.
Of course, the Santorum surge could just have been because he was the last "Not-Mitt" standing right before the caucus, so no negative attention was yet drawn to him, but I still think this makes the race interesting if only because Romney isn't going to coast to an easy nomination.
(Sorry about the horserace stuff. It's just....I don't follow sports, you know?)
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