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Fred showed up in the Iowa straw poll ahead of Rudy G. and McCain.....but the clock is ticking.
2007 Iowa Straw Poll a resounding success. No one was more pleased than Governor Mitt Romney who received 4,516 votes to win the Straw Poll.
In second place Governor Mike Huckabee 2,587;
Third Senator Sam Brownback 2,192;
Fourth, U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo 1,961;
Fifth place was U.S. Representative Ron Paul 1,305;
Sixth Governor Tommy Thompson 1,029;
Seventh place finisher, and undeclared candidate, Fred Thompson 203;
Eighth Mayor Rudy Giuliani 183;
Ninth U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter 174;
Tenth Senator John McCain, 101;
And finishing last with 41 votes was John Cox.
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"There are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations"
James Madison
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