Catching Up on the Republican 2012 Primary

I've been tied up with my paying job and not posting as much as I'd like to lately so let's recap what's happened since we left off:

• Huntsman and Perry are out
• The Iowa caucus results will never be official because of the "lost" votes
• Santorum won Iowa, Romney won New Hampshire and Gingrich won South Carolina
• Gingrich has one win and two fourth place finishes.
• Paul has one second, third and fourth place finishes.
• Romney has one win and two second place finishes.
• Santorum has one win, one third and one fifth place finish,
• Florida's closed primary is up next
• Tentative delegate counts are as follows: Romney 34, Gingrich 28, Paul 10 and Santorum 8.

New Hampshire 1/7/2012 Debate Transcript

Here's a quick breakdown of the 2012 ABC/Yahoo!/WMUR New Hampshire GOP primary debate from January 7, 2012 and a link to the full transcript of the debate:

Participants:

• Rick Santorum
• New Gingrich
• Ron Paul
• Mitt Romney
• Rick Perry
• Jon Huntsman

Moderators:

• Diane Sawyer
• George Stephanopoulos
• Josh McElveen

Number of Times Each Candidate Spoke (Includes questions, responses & follow ups):

• 41 - Mitt Romney
• 29 - Rick Santorum
• 22 - Ron Paul
• 17 - Newt Gingrichh
• 14 - Jon Huntsman
• 9 - Rick Perry

Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/2012-abcyahoowmur-new-hampshire-gop-primary-debate-transcript/2012/01/07/gIQAk2AAiP_blog.html

Five Republican Primaries/Caucuses in January 2012

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The following Republican primaries/caucuses have or will occur in January of 2012:

• January 3, 2012 - Iowa
• January 10, 2012 - New Hampshire
• January 21, 2012 - South Carolina
• January 31, 2012 - Florida

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2012

Iowa and New Hampshire Results

I was hoping to give you a few facts on the results of the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary however, official results could not be found. First I tried a google search for the official or certified results with no luck. I then went directly the Secretary of State websites for both states. Neither reported the results of the recent caucus / primary. I'm not sure what source the other news organizations are reporting from but, I'll keep checking for the official results and post them when available.