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Caucus Diary: Mitt Romney, Rand and Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum wrap up Iowa

By Glen Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 03, 2012

Just two days into the new year, the Republican presidential contenders yesterday all but wrapped up their Iowa campaigns in advance of tonight’s caucuses. Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, and Michele Bachmann pounded their target precincts in a final day of campaigning that stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Nebraska and South Dakota borders in the west. The seventh candidate, Jon Huntsman, stayed away entirely, staking his candidacy in New Hampshire.

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