Mitt “the Mormon” Romney won the Iowa Straw Poll. Ron Paul was expected to get maybe 2% of the vote in Iowa Straw Poll, instead he won 10% and came in fifth place. Mike Huckaby, also considered by the MSM as a rogue candidate, came in 2nd. If you read the MSM headlines you would think this is a huge victory for Romney and a major defeat for Paul, but that would be incorrect.

To begin with the Romney campaign offered free transportation to and from the event and he offered to pay for the $35.00 ticket to the event. The other candidates did none of that. In fact Mike Huckaby said this to the Ames, Iowa crowd about the strategy, “I’m not the best-funded candidate in America. I can’t buy you, I don’t have the money, I can’t even rent you.”

The 10% won by Ron Paul was important because as Free Market New Network reports:

Presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-TX) seems to have proved that his campaign can turn electronic sentiment into real votes. Sources close to the campaign expected – along with the GOP – that about 25,000 votes would be cast at the Iowa Straw Poll on Saturday, August 11, and said that anything over five percent of the vote could be considered as proving that Ron Paul’s electronic presence was a tangible asset. This is based on national polling that shows Ron Paul at only 2 percent. But only about 14,000 votes were reportedly cast. Thus Ron Paul’s showing of 1305 votes is almost 10 percent, or double what sources said was the base level of support that the campaign hoped to achieve in the Iowa Straw Poll.

So before you listen to the MSM propaganda machine, take time to look at the candidates and what they really stand for. Why wouldn’t any American want to abolish the income tax and remove the power of the Federal Reserve? I hope Americans wake up and look at the candidate pool instead of allowing the propaganda machine to make up their minds for them.

[tags]Ron Paul, Iowa Straw Poll, Ames Iowa, Mike Huckaby, 2008 Elections[/tags]