Now that the Iowa votes have been certified, Rick Santorum is the winner over Romney.
It would have to come down to this for either candidate. Whether there is a shift of wind from one sail to another remains to be seen.
On the night of the Iowa caucuses, the state GOP reported that Mitt Romney had won … by eight votes. In terms of delegate distribution, that would have produced a tie, if in fact the Iowa caucuses assigned delegates at all to the national Republican convention, which it most assuredly does not. It’s a non-binding preference poll; Iowa’s delegates get selected at the state convention months from now, and the preference poll has no role in that selection process.