Rick Santorum's late surge and Ron Paul's dominance among young voters and independents combined to undercut Mitt Romney's front-runner status in the GOP presidential field Tuesday night.
The tight three-way finish in the Iowa caucuses showed no clear favorite. Early Wednesday morning, with 100 percent of votes tallied, Santorum and Romney were statistically tied with 25 percent each -- and Romney winning by a mere eight votes out of 60,015 cast between the two men. Paul had 21 percent of the approximately 121,000 total votes cast.
