Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul In Dead Heat During Iowa Caucus Early Polling

Early polling results are starting to come in from the 2012 Iowa Caucus and voters are keeping the race in a virtual deadlock with Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney controlling 24% of the vote with Ron Paul not far behind with 22%.

Falling quickly from GOP voters good graces is Newt Gingrich with just 13% of overall votes and Rick Perry with just 10%.

As expected Michele Bachmann is all but done in the caucus with 6% of voter support while Jon Huntsman has clawed his way to 1%.

If the polling numbers remain close and a decisive winner is not chosen all three candidates vying for the top spot will have the ammunition needed to raise last minute funds as they inch their way towards other voting states in the coming weeks.

In an interesting pole one-third of voters in Iowa named “electability” as their reason for voting as they did, that number is up from just 7% of respondents in 2008 and provides Mitt Romney with a slight advantage over his GOP competitors.

Do you believe that electability is on the minds of voters as they choose who they want to be the next presidential hopeful for the GOP? Shouldn’t that always be the issue? I know I wouldn’t want to vote for the guy who can’t be the other parties President.