News Analysis | Iowa Caucuses
Uniting a split GOP is next hurdle
Tea Party supporters and Christian evangelicals turned out in large numbers for Mitt Romney’s chief rivals, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul, highlighting deep divides within the GOP.
Charlie Neibergall/associated press
Members of his family behind him, Mitt Romney addressed supporters at his night rally in Des Moines.
Charlie Riedel/associated press
Rick Santorum waved to supporters alongside his wife, Karen, in Johnston, Iowa.
Charlie Neibergall/associated press
Governor Rick Perry of Texas said he would reassess his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
Jim Young/REUTERS
Ron Paul addressed supporters in his night rally in Ankeny, Iowa, after finishing third in the caucuses.
Chris Carlson/associated press
After finishing fourth, Newt Gingrich said the race for the Republican nomination was just beginning.
Dave Weaver/associated press
Voters debated last night during a caucus near Smithland, Iowa.
Liz Martin/the gazette/associated press
A father and son from Clermont, Iowa, voted at a caucus at the Clermont Opera House.
Liz Martin/the gazette/associated press
Voters waited to register at the Clermont Opera House.
Iowa caucuses
Romney edges Santorum by 8 votes
Iowa Republican Party officials announced early this morning that Mitt Romney beat Rick Santorum by just 8 votes, an outcome that blunted the momentum Romney would have otherwise carried into the N.H. primary.
Brian McGrory
Mitt, we still hardly know ye
Mitt Romney was typically at his best in his unscripted moments - when he allowed it. But now the question becomes, will he show the nation more than he showed us.
Bachmann suspends presidential bid
After a poor showing in Iowa, Michele Bachmann has ‘‘decided to stand aside’’ and suspend her bid for president.
Fresh from Iowa victory, Romney hits the airwaves
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mitt Romney expressed how he and his campaign haven’t gotten to know surprise opponent Rick Santorum.
Retail politics on a budget brings unexpected success
Rick Santorum’s successful Iowa campaign ran on a shoestring budget, eschewing luxury motorcoaches for a Dodge pickup truck.
Marshall returns to private law practice in Boston
Former chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court Margaret H. Marshall, who wrote the 2003 decision legalizing gay marriage in the state, joins Choate, Hall & Stewart this week.
Obama to tap Cordray with recess appointment
President Obama plans to use a recess appointment to name Richard Cordray as head of the Financial Protection Bureau, circumventing a Senate that had blocked his nomination.
“There remains a clear battle over who is going to dominate in the Republican Party.”
David Redlawsk, a political science professor and director of polling at Rutgers
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Back Bay church seeks to restore Tiffany window
The Church of the Covenant is trying to come up with the $60,000 needed to restore a rare window that was smashed last month by thieves.
Business
Sears’ new retail czar joins an ailing icon
Sears chose Ron Boire, Brookstone Inc.’s chief executive, to serve as its chief merchandising officer and help bring customers back into its stores.
Politics
Political notebook
Gingrich calls Romney liar over role in ads
Newt Gingrich called Mitt Romney a liar for saying he has no role in or responsibility for a barrage of negative TV ads credited with damaging Gingrich's campaign in Iowa.
Nation & World
Citing ‘massacres,’ Sarkozy steps up push against Assad
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France issued a new call for President Bashar Assad of Syria to step down, insisting yesterday that Assad “must leave power.’’
Sports
On baseball
Red Sox need to toughen up under Bobby Valentine
The Red Sox manager has a history of fining players for dogging it. He’ll make those rules very clear to his players in spring training.
Food and dining
Healthy Eating
Jazz musician Dan Greenspan crafts artisan bread loaves
Greenspan followed a circuitous path that involved reading about an ancient loaf, striving to perfect it, and apprenticing himself briefly to a professional baker.
Arts
Galleries
Still lifes served with lush gruesomeness
Rendered with lush hyper-realism, these still lifes pull you in with their loveliness before they pierce you with their message.
Opinion
“[Romney] leaves Iowa as the front-runner, however grudgingly, in a party that lacks a compelling alternative.”
Scot Lehigh
Ideas
“Recent years have seen an explosion of interest and creativity in the realm of data-driven soothsaying, and some in the field predict—well, they think—that they are on the cusp of something big.”
Leon Neyfakh, on the future of prediction