The week in review
It's been quite a week around the country. It started off on Tuesday with the widely anticipated Iowa caucuses, the very first test of a candidate's appeal to the electorate and the results were somewhat surprising. The front-runner, Mitt Romney, won by only 8 votes over the late-charging Rick Santorum while the libertarian-minded Ron Paul was a distant third. The old political hack, Newt Gingrich was fourth, Rick Perry, once the rising star in the Republican Party who is now seen mostly as spoiled goods was fifth, and Iowa native Michelle Bachmann, who won the Iowa straw poll back in the summer, finished a dismal sixth and dropped out of the race the next day. Jon Huntsman, who didn't campaign in Iowa at all because he was putting all of his time and money into the New Hampshire primary that votes this coming Tuesday, was last.