Rick Perry

Just as John McCain was the biggest victor when Mike Huckabee won the Iowa caucuses in 2008, mortally wounding Mitt Romney, so are Perry and Mitt Romney the biggest winners from Bachmann’s elimination of Tim Pawlenty. As icing on Perry’s cake, he easily beat Romney with write-ins, throwing the latter’s status as the putative frontrunner into serious doubt (see below).

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