Mitt-ens Wins Iowa Straw Poll
Shocka! Not really. He dumped a lot of money for this win. Giuliani and McCain skipped Iowa, not that it would've made any difference for McCain. Romney, Brownback, and (I believe) Tancredo bussed in supporters and purchased voting cards for them. Looks like every single one of the Ron-Paulians made the trip to Iowa.
Huckabee was the real upset. He's a good guy, I just have this feeling he's a little soft. Duncan Hunter didn't fare as well as I had hoped. His voters came to Iowa on their own and purchased voting cards out of their own pocket. It was refreshing to hear him this morning say that a lot of good things happened after the straw poll.
1. Mitt Romney - 4516 votes, 31%
2. Mike Huckabee - 2587 votes, 18.1%
3. Sam Brownback - 2192 votes, 15.3%
4. Tom Tancredo - 1961 votes, 13.7%
5. Ron Paul - 1305 votes, 9.1%
6. Tommy Thompson - 1,009 votes, 7.3%
7. Fred Thompson - 231 votes
8. Rudy Giuliani - 183 votes
9. Duncan Hunter - 174 votes
10. John McCain - 101 votes
11. John Cox - 41 votes
