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Romney is going to wind up with about the same total vote and percentage as in 2008
He just can't expand his base!
Republicans
40 unpledged delegates
Candidate Vote % Delegates
Mike Huckabee 40,841 34.4% 0
Mitt Romney 29,949 25.2 0
Fred D. Thompson 15,904 13.4 0
John McCain 15,559 13.1 0
Ron Paul 11,817 10.0 0
Rudolph W. Giuliani 4,097 3.5 0
Duncan Hunter 524 0.4 0
Tom Tancredo 5 0.0 0
98% reporting
http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/IA.html
Also does it seem like a great many more Republicans voted this time as compared to four years ago? I don't think so, even though they have had the state pretty much to themselves.