"It’s hard to say who was more excited Tuesday night: Rick Santorum, who came within eight votes of beating Mitt Romney or the Democrats watching on their couches at home. The theory from the Democrats: if that’s the best Romney can do, the general election is looking better and better. Democrats have long focused on Romney as the likely nominee, and the results here in the Caucus race bear that plan out: even with just an eight-vote margin of victory, Romney’s path to the nomination looks smoother than ever.
Democrats have also said the primary process exposes how vulnerable Romney can be. Tuesday night’s results seemed to prove that point as well. Democrats pointed out that despite Romney’s heavy spending in Iowa and the five years he’s had to make his case to conservative voters, about 3/4 of caucus-goers last night chose someone other than the man who’s been making the case he’s the most electable for five years.
More embarrassing for Romney: President Obama — who faced no competition — actually pulled out a competitive number of votes last night. Democrats say 25,000 Iowans turned out to caucus for the president. Moving ahead to New Hampshire, Democrats say they’ve proven the point that Romney is a weak opponent for Obama. “Despite Mitt Romney’s $14 million bet to win the Iowa Caucuses by promising to eviscerate Medicare and implement a divisive immigration policy, he could do no better than limp to a pathetic finish that didn’t even beat his 2008 results,” Obama super PAC PrioritiesUSA’s Bill Burton said in a statement. “But even worse for Romney, should he become the nominee, he now owns a long-term problem with Hispanic and senior voters that will he will not soon live down.”"
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