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Santorum (barely) moves to 4th/Updated

Published by Tim McNulty on .

Rick Santorum pulled into 4th place in NH, just ahead of Newt Gingrich, around 9:45 p.m.

With 57% reporting, he led Gingrich by 85 votes.

UPDATE: Santorum hit the stage just before 10 p.m. to deliver his N.H. farewell & S.C. greeting, hitting on his usual themes of family and economic prosperity. "We have an opportunity to be the true conservative . . . who can go out and do what's necessary not just to win this race -- we can win this race -- but to be the conservative who understands the foundation of our country are institutions that are crucial for us to be a successful nation."

UPDATE 10:14 pm. Gingrich moves back into 4th with 69% reporting, by 51 votes.

UPDATE 10:35 pm. At the 3/4 pole Gingrich in 4th place over Santorum, by 107 votes.

UPDATE 11:09 p.m. These numbers have hardly changed in a half-hour. We're getting out of here and will give a final tally in the morning.

Thanks for reading, everybody. Much more to come throughout the year.

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Santorum wins (one town)

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Rick Santorum was still in fifth place as of 9:10 p.m., but he has won one town in N.H., according to Google's breakout: Roxbury, with almost 57% of the vote.

UPDATE 10:53 p.m. Google has since changed the results and has Ron Paul winning the town. Pic below of what the results looked like earlier.

Roxbury

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2008 vs 2012

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Mitt Romney is at 37% of the N.H. vote (with about 1/3 counted), which is ahead of his 32% four years ago. If Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum stay at 10%, that puts them directly in between Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani (at 11 and 9% respectively).

On the other hand, turnout looks pretty low vs 2008. (NYT)

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Perry: real conservative still needed

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Rick Perry, tonight's 1 percenter (note: I stole that from Twitter), released a statement tonight saying the race is still on to find a "conservative alternative" to Romney.

Here it is:

LEESVILLE, S.C. - Gov. Rick Perry tonight issued the following statement:

"Tonight's results in New Hampshire show the race for 'conservative alternative' to Mitt Romney remains wide open. I skipped New Hampshire and aimed my campaign right at conservative South Carolina, where we've been campaigning hard and receiving an enthusiastic welcome. I believe being the only non-establishment outsider in the race, the proven fiscal and social conservative and proven job creator will win the day in South Carolina.

"South Carolina is the next stop. I have a head start here, and it's friendly territory for a Texas governor and veteran with solid outsider credentials, the nation's best record of job creation, and solid fiscal, social and Tea Party conservatism."

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Full Romney remarks

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Mitt Romney wanted to sound every bit the GOP's standard bearer against Barack Obama tonight, as if the primary campaign was all wrapped up: his speech, in full below, mentions the Democrat repeatedly but none of his Republican challengers.

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