CNN just had some drama about a missing precinct, seems Romney will win. 8 vote win.

[joshcryer]

The state GOP party didn't have the numbers, had to wake up some lady at 1~ AM, they called CNN and gave the numbers.

edit: to clarify, this is just CNN drama, I don't know if they're on to anything but it seemed credible and the lady seemed genuine enough, she even cheered when she heard Romney won.

final edit: CNN just called it for Romney by 8 votes.

[Lil Missy]

1. It's not 2 AM yet in Iowa. n/t

[joshcryer]

4. my bad, I'm geographically stupid, thanks for the correction

[Lil Missy]

9. no prob.

[nonconformist]

2. Missing votes were in Rove's briefcase.

How odd!

[Tx4obama]

3. Oh, brother.

So, Santorum is FOUR votes ahead, and now they 'found' more votes!
We should have known that they'd have to find some 'missing' numbers so that Romney would win it.

[joshcryer]

7. I do think it's an interesting coincidence, but, the lady seemed real enough.

However, she said she called in those numbers around 7:30 pm, it could be that the numbers were added in and the tabulation is messed up higher up in the hierarchy.

[LiberalAndProud]

11. Really? I guess Rove's task masters don't want to encourage Santorum with a win.

I hope he gets huge momentum coming out of this. A tie without benefit of all Romney's dollars is really an accomplishment. May the blood letting continue.

[still_one]

5. I hope CNN gets egg on their face again for their shoddy coverage. /nt

[RandySF]

6. 14 votes.

[joshcryer]

8. *nod* thanks, edited OP

[Skip Intro]

10. it's all in the script...nt

[MADem]

12. Is this kind of like Ahmadinejad's people, stuffing the ballot boxes after spending the night

filling out ballots by hand?

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter--a few votes this way or that, neither one had a decisive victory. There were two "winners" in this dingaling singalong!

How much money did Romney waste in this freakathon...for a lousy fourteen point "victory?"

[joshcryer]

13. 8 votes. Ahmadinejad won some areas by 120%...

...this is a virtual tie.

[Tx4obama]

14. Hillarious tweet seen on Twitter

@thinkprogress
Next time, could Rove just tell us who is going to win at 8PM? #goodnight
30 minutes ago via TweetDeck
http://twitter.com/#!/thinkprogress/status/154459251430010880

[deacon]

15. Question remaining is will rove offer a suitcase of cash to newt to go easy on mitt in the debates.

[JDPriestly]

16. Reminds me of what happened in Wisconsin.

Very strange.

[Happyhippychick]

17. If only the Duggars had 8 more children, Santorum could have taken this