So, did anyone else notice that the person who "certified" the results of the Iowa Straw Poll was a member of Mitt Romney's Leadership team? How about a little math on the Straw Poll (provided via Steve Watson of Infowars.net):

FUZZY MATH #1
So we know from the state Auditor that one ‘problem’ machine contained 500 votes. Assuming most machines contained a similar pattern of use, then they should also contain about the same number of votes. 60 (machines) x 500 = 30,000 votes. That is more than TWICE as many as the official count. Based on a total vote count of 14,301, if all machines were used about equally, then the average number of votes per machine SHOULD have been 238 {14,301 (total votes) / 60 (machines) = 238 votes per machine}. What are the odds that one of the machines that ‘malfunctioned’ and actually gave up an audited vote tally would contain TWICE as many votes as the ‘average’ machine? But it gets worse…

FUZZY MATH #2
State Auditor David Vaudt (who unofficially certified the vote count) said that there were only 2 machines out of the 60 that were inconsistent (paper printout vs. electronic tabulation) and needed to be recounted. Mary Tiffany of the Iowa GOP said that a total of approximately 1500 votes were re-fed into the Diebold machines. Since we know that there were only two machines that were a problem and one of them contained 500 votes, then the second machine must have contained about 1000 ballots, which is more than FOUR TIMES what the ‘average’ machine should contain based on a total vote of 14,301. It seems more likely that there were actually 3 problem machines, and the true average per machine was about 500 votes, which would have resulted in a total vote of about 30,000 which is twice the official total vote count.

Though it was reported that "there were nothing but Ron Paul signs in the crowd" and that his campaign signs lined the highways and streets leading into Ames, Iowa, Paul came in fifth place behind Romney, Huckabee, Brownback and Tancredo.

Some exit polls also suggested that Ron Paul had actually WON the poll outright, before the final result was announced.

Another detail from Vote in the Sunshine: their exit polling gave quite contradictory results to the "official" voting results. Exit polling showed these results:

Ron Paul 37%
Mike Huckabee 21%
Tom Tancredo 17%
Mitt Romney 10%
Sam Brownback 7%
Tommy Thompson 4%
Duncan Hunter 1%
John McCain 1%
Fred Thompson 0%
John Cox 0%
Rudy Giuliani 0%
Hillary Clinton 0% (1 vote)
Dennis Kucinich 0% (1 vote)

That's awful different than the Mitt-Romney Campaign Manager who counted the votes, isn't it?

Go ahead, fit me for the tinfoil hat, but something looks awful fishy here.

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