Breaking: Final result gives Mitt Romney an 8-vote win in Iowa caucuses

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28. What matters in the end

is how many delegates each candidate has at the nominating convention. Check out the article I linked, Paul may very well end up with almost all of the Iowa delegates.

As far as the narrative goes, the corporate media will construct the narrative they want no matter what happens on the ground. When Paul was polling first/tied for first they explicitly refused to cover him and even said that if he won, Iowa would be meaningless!

The narrative was never something he could really directly affect - check out the very personal contempt aimed at him by both FNC (nominally "right" ) and CNN (nominally "left" ) - but the narrative doesn't cast any votes at the convention...

Given the primary schedule, Paul doesn't need any narrative help at all until at least February, by which time Santorum will have been exposed and it will be next-man-up vs. the despised Romney again.

The really interesting scenario is if this keeps up like this all throughout the primary season so that nobody walks into the convention with a majority of the delegates. At that point they could pick anybody in a brokered convention, and that doesn't necessarily have to be one of the people who were on the ballot in Iowa.