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In Iowa, it's still any Republican's game

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney

Photo credit: AP | Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks to supporters at the Family Table restaurant during a campaign stop in Le Mars, Iowa. (Dec. 31, 2011)

Ellis Henican

Newsday columnist Ellis Henican Ellis Henican

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No one can tell you now who will win the Iowa caucuses Tuesday. The polls can't. The pundits can't. I certainly can't. But even I know this much: The first official test of the Republican candidates for president has been one head-spinning, heart-pounding breakneck ride, careening all the way to the finish line.

And look at all the bruised bodies littering the road.

Pizza man Herman...

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