What the Media Should Report About the Ames Straw Poll

Interesting analysis of the recent straw poll. I believe Ron Paul doing as well as he did shows he has more than just internet popularity.

What the Media Should Report About the Ames Straw Poll

Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul Were Clear Winners, Mitt Romney Was a Loser

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When you consider all the money Romney had spent in order to win the Ames Straw Poll, he did not do well at all. I do not know the actual dollar amount spent by the Romney campaign but I think it would be safe to say that it was on the order of hundreds per vote. But Romney is a smart businessman, he understands that winning this event will generate tons of free positive media attention worth far more than the petty millions he spent for Ames.

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Ron Paul showed a 350% improvement over his CNA at the straw poll and is clearly the second winner at the event. It is easy to show such a marked up win when you are only averaging about 2-3% in the polls but his polling average has been 50% lower than Duncan Hunter yet he wiped the floor of Hunter by a factor of 8. He had a raw net gain in percentage more than Tom Tancredo.

Ron Paul supporters should be very proud of his performance here. It may be reported as a horrendous performance because he came in fifth place but when you consider he was not even included in many polls just a few months ago and his poor polling numbers thus far have been keeping him down, 10% here is great.

http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/2008/articles/ames-straw-poll-results.html

It's only a straw poll so it doesn't really count for anything in the long run. Nice to see him win something though.

Interesting stuff is now floating around the Internet.

http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews-print.asp?nid=47335

RON PAUL IOWA EXIT POLL SHOWS WIN?

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Reported "Exit Poll Results," according to YouTube site, see below

Iowa Straw Poll Exit Poll ...

Ron Paul______37.01%
M Huckabee___20.85%
T Tancredo____16.72%
Mitt Romney___10.03%
S Brownback___06.91%
T Thompson____04.35%
D Hunter_______01.34%
F Thompson____00.89%
Rudy Giuliani___00.67%
John McCain____00.56%
John Cox_______00.45%

"Ron Paul actually won the Iowa Straw Poll by a large margin. ... 6% were exit polled, and RP won overwhelmingly."

http://bradblog.com/

Diebold Optical-Scan System Fails in Iowa GOP Straw Poll!

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

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As we reported on July 15, Ron Paul's supporters were concerned that Diebold touch-screen voting machines were going to be used in the Iowa Republican Straw Poll. Well, it turns out the concerns about touch-screens were misplaced, as the GOP chose paper-based Diebold optical-scan machines instead. But their fears of Diebold may well have been justified as two of their op-scan systems failed and delayed the reported results.

While GOP candidate Mitt Romney may have walked away with a winning edge in the Iowa Straw Poll, Diebold was true to form as their voting system failed to count ballots correctly. As the Des Moines Register is reporting two of Diebold's optical scanners failed and 1500 paper ballots had to be manually recounted by hand...

At least there were paper ballots that could be hand counted when the machines failed. Had the Republican's used Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines --- as millions of Americans are forced to do each Election Day --- there would have been nothing to go back to when the machines failed.

Of course this wasn't heard of on CNN or any media because only the big names like Drooliani and Hellary are important

Hitlery has been pre-ordained the winner.