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Straw Poll results from Iowa

Posted in Iowa by schotline on August 11th, 2007

Here are the straw poll results from Iowa. The results were supposed to be announced at 7:00. The results have now been delayed for 15 minutes.

Update: 7:15PM In the hall there are no Mitt Romney supporters: There are about 400 Ron Paul supporters screaming “Ron Paul” There are about 200 Mike Huckabee supporters shouting, “I Like Mike.” and 100 Brownback supporters shouting “Brownback.” All of the other campaigns have folded up and left and only a handful of media are left in the filing room.

Update at 8:02 PM……

There are still no straw poll results. Marc Ambinder is reporting….

AMES — The announcement of tonight’s straw poll results has been delayed due to what one informed source says was a voting machine malfunction. About 4,500 ballots had to be re-run. We are waiting….

As you can imagine the Ron Paul are going crazy. They are already claiming there is a conspiracy of some sort. We might never now who the real winner of the straw poll is.

Sam Brownback - 2192 15.33%

John Cox -41 .29%

Rudy Giuliani - 183 1.28%

Mike Huckabee - 2587 18.09%

Duncan Hunter - 174 1.22%

John McCain - 101 .71%

Ron Paul - 1305 9.12%

Mitt Romney - 4516 31.58%

Tom Tancredo - 1961 13.71%

Fred Thompson - 203 1.42%

Tommy Thompson - 1039 7.26%

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