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Latest poll puts Ron Paul in first-place tie

Less than two months before the Iowa caucuses occur — the next monumental step in the course of events leading up to the Republican Party makes their nomination for the presidency — Texas Congressman Ron Paul has taken the lead in the latest poll.

According to the results of the latest poll from Bloomberg News, Paul is neck-and-neck with pizzaman Herman Cain, with the two candidates coming in with 19 percent and 20 percent of the vote, respectively, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.

Contestants will produce a two-minute video of a speech which would be appropriate
to give at an Iowa caucus in support of Ron Paul!

Prizes to the top videos!

http://youtu.be/OtXNJb55ZlQ

This is a graph from Real Clear Politics showing polling trends for popular Republican candidates from June 9 to December 18, 2011.

Ron Paul: ‘I’d like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade’

By Felicia Sonmez

Ron Paul is no flavor of the month.

Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” about Saturday’s Des Moines Register poll showing him surging into second place in Iowa, the Texas congressman and GOP presidential hopeful said the survey reflects that his positions on economic and foreign policy issues have been “striking a chord with the people.”

Heavy handed hate article on Ron Paul and how his win in Iowa would discredit the caucus, but if anyone else wins, it will be okay.

Ron Paul: Iowa Family Forum GOP Debate Highlights

Highlights of Ron Paul’s answers during this weekend’s GOP debate in Iowa.

Every Republican candidate has had a chance to be the “anointed frontrunner”, except Ron Paul. It’s self-fulfilling propaganda. The mainstream media ignores Ron Paul because he has no chance of winning. If the mainstream media ignores Ron Paul, then he has no chance of winning. ... For example, suppose that the mainstream media pounded Obama for his connections to Corzine as much as they hounded Ron Paul for his newsletter. If they did that, he would have zero chance of getting reelected.

After Iowa, Republican Party finally figures out the fit has hit the shan, wants desperately not to get "Perot'd" by Ron Paul and his supporters. In fact, there are hints Republican operatives actually _understand_ Paul and his supporters as NOT "kooks." The key comment: "Paul agrees with us 85 percent of the time," said the operative, "and his supporters are earnest conservatives and libertarians who have no reason to support Obama in 2012 unless they're stepped on by our team."

Threats to disrupt the Iowa Republican caucuses next week have prompted state GOP officials to move the vote tabulation to an "undisclosed location," POLITICO has learned. This obviously has nothing to do with Ron Paul, nosiree.