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There is an unofficial exit poll done at the Ames straw poll that shows Ron Paul ahead by a pretty large margin. The exit poll was conducted by the Vote in Sunshine group, which is the same group that had the lawsuit against the RPI dismissed over the use of Diebold voting machines. The group stated their main goal was…

achieving fair and accurate voting processes in America by returning to the use of and counting/saving/storing of paper ballots.

Here are the results from the exit poll…

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%

Another blog compared the official results with the exit polls.

It appears the results were mostly in-line with the “official” poll, with the exception of Paul, Romney and Brownback:

Candidate…………… Amount……VIS%…….Official………Difference

Ron Paul………..332……37.01%……9. 1%……..27.91%
Mike Huckabee……187……..20.85%…..18.1%. …….2.75%
Tom Tancredo………..150…….16.72%……..13.7% ……..3.02%
Mitt Romney….90……10.03%…….31.6%…….-21.57%
Sam Brownback….62……..6.91%……..15.3%……..-8.39%
Tommy Thompson…..39………4.35%……….7.3%……..-2.95%
Duncan Hunter………..12………1.34%……….1.2% ………..0.14%
Fred Thompson………..8………0.89%…….1. 4%…….-0.51%
Rudy Giuliani……….6………0.67%…… .1.3%……..-0.63%
John McCain……..5………0.56%…… 0.7%……..-0.14%
John Cox…………..4…………0.45%………..0.1%………0.35%

Some Ron Paul supporters say this is proof that the voting at the straw poll was rigged and Ron Paul actually won the event.

I actually think the difference stems from the fact that Ron Paul had hundreds of supporters at the Straw Poll from outside the state. I heard a spokesperson from the Ron Paul campaign say this on CSPAN’s broadcast live from the event. These people could not vote because you had to have a Iowa ID to vote. I am pretty sure Ron Paul wasn’t the only candidate that had supporters there from out of the state. If the group that conducted the straw poll asked some of the people who were from out of state the results would be skewed in favor of Ron Paul.

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