mountains out of molehills

"DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum shrugged off reports late Thursday that the vote count from Iowa's caucuses might be wrong, saying the errors appear not to change the fact that he and Mitt Romney were nearly tied.
     Santorum told Fox News that Iowa's Republican Party chairman, Matt Strawn, informed him of two cases in which errors were reported in the count from Tuesday night. Taken together, Santorum said, the changes would almost cancel out each other and that Romney would win by nine votes instead of eight.“
— NPR (from: The Associated Press)
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"The 2012 Iowa Republican caucuses took place on January 3, 2012. It was the closest race in Iowa caucus history with only an eight-vote margin (less than 1⁄100th of a percent) separating former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who received 30,015 votes (24.55 percent), and former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who received 30,007 votes (24.54 percent). Representative Ron Paul of Texas ran a close third, receiving 26,219 votes (21.4 percent). [...]"
     Total turnout was 122,255 votes, setting a record for Iowa Republican caucuses, but still far less than the all-time Iowa caucus record in the 2008 Democratic Iowa caucuses, in which 239,000 Democrats voted. The 122,255 votes represent 19 percent of active registered Republicans in the state, and just 5.4 percent of all voters in the state."— Wikipedia
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For Iowans, at least, that means Rick got about 1.6% of the vote—and so did Mitt.

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