Iowa Selects Romney; Is he the Clear Front-Runner?

Mitt Romney, who owns a house in La Jolla, won the Iowa Republican Caucus on Tuesday with just eight more votes than former Rick Santorum.

Posted Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:59 pm PT|Updated Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:56 pm PT

The results are in for the Iowa caucus and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won with 30,015 votes to Rick Santorum's 30,007. The question remains though: Is he the clear front-runner? Or are Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul and Rick Perry still on your radar?

Paul pulled in 26,219 votes, Gingrich 16,251, Perry 12,604, Bachmann 6,073 and Huntsman just 745.

Next up on the campaign trail is New Hampshire. The New Hampshire primary is Jan. 10.

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