GOP Makes its First Presidential Pick in Iowa

Today, Iowa gets to determine its Presidential choice for the GOP.  This contest between the final seven candidates has been tough.  After today, it promises to get even more intense. 

Mitt Romney fields a question from CNN host Wolf Blitzer at
the 11/22/2011 televised GOP debate.  (TV Screenshot)

Although I don’t feel that the Iowa GOP caucus is truly representative of the majority of voters in that state, it nonetheless provides a strong impetus for the winner who will have an advantage going into the New Hampshire primaries on January 10^th. 

The Iowa caucus remains influential:  Four years ago, in what some pundits considered an upset, Barack Obama defeated Hillary Clinton, and subsequently propelled himself into the White House. 

But for the GOP in the last few months, polls have been teetering every which way.