Jon Stewart to the rescue...

Ames Iowa Straw Poll is one of the most important and influential straw polls before the start of Republican presidential primary in 2012.

It is used mostly as a guide to show, who has the campaign, momentum and movement in order to win primaries later next year.

But here is the thing, this year winner Michele Bachmann who has been already expected to take the first place (the question was by what margin), "unexpectedly" won by only 150 votes from the next contender.

And as such received allot of media attention. But if I check the results here:

1 Michele Bachmann 4,823 28.6%
2 Ron Paul 4,671 27.7%
3 Tim Pawlenty 2,293 13.6%
4 Rick Santorum 1,657 9.8%
5 Herman Cain 1,456 8.6%
6 Rick Perry (write-in) 718 4.3%
7 Mitt Romney 567 3.4%

We can clearly see that the difference is less than one percent, between first and second place.

Now what about the other guy in the second place ? Who is that.. Ron Paul ?

Doesn't he deserve some attention, because clearly you can't ignore more than 4600 people that voted for him. But well, he got ignored, almost completely, not even a single mention in most news sources.

But why ?

Maybe Jon Stewart can explain:

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I have to give Jon Stewart a credit, well everyone already knows that, His show is the most reliable source of information on Mainstream media, jokes aside this is a joy to watch, and learn something that is not censored, ignored or manipulated.


There are plenty of thoughts, speculations, why this is happening, but I leave this for you to research yourself.