UPDATE ELECTION 2012 BEGINS IN EARNEST AS THE IOWA CAUCUSES ARE HELD TONIGHT............

After more than a year of positioning and premilinary presentations of formulating campaigns for the American Presidency as prospective Republican nominess this year to face off against re-election seeking President Obama in November - Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Michelle Bachman, and Jon Huntsman, face the first official decision of the nominating process tonight, in the 2012 Iowa Caucuses.  Presumptive frontrunner former Massachucetts Governor Romney, who has yet to exceed 25% in the polls, leads a still very volatile race going into today's Caucuses.  Can Romney do what he did not do four years ago, and pull out a first place win, or will Texas U.S. Representative Ron Paul, or currently surging, former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, surpass him to attain a first place finish ?  And what positions will previous, temporarily, leading contenders, former Speaker of the U.S. House from Georgia, Newt Gingrich; Texas Governor Rick Perry; or Minnesota U.S. Representative Michelle Bachman; find themselves after tonight's voting ?  Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, has put his focus on the next contest one week from today, the, "First in the Nation", New Hampshire Primary, awaits the field of those get the traditional, 'three tickets out of Iowa'.  The Iowa Caucuses will begin reporting the outcome in about eight hours or so from now, to begin the process of winnowing the nominating process toward the selection of the 2012 White House Republican Standbearer as a potential 45th President of the United States of America............More To Come Later As We Update Election 2012,   Fr.  Troy