Essentially, it all boiled down to a crucial half-hour, but it was due to the organization that Team Romney had set up in the state, and the shadow counting operation the campaign had installed at various precincts to back-stop the Republican Party of Iowa's own count.There was a war room overseeing it all, run by national political director Rich Beeson and his lead Iowa operative David Kochel, at the Hotel Fort Des Moines, upstairs from the candidate's election night party.
via politico.com
