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Iowa Straw Poll Decoded

Submitted by tz on Fri, 08/17/2007 - 15:22
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Starting with this story:

http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/2008/articles/ames-straw-pol...

Which is a new way of interpreting the results - Paul has the highest increase over expectations.

Huckabee had the largest bump.

Justin Raimondo talks a bit more (and on Huckabee more than Paul, but it is interesting).

http://www.takimag.com/site/article/decoding_the_iowa_poll/

From the first article:

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.