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...When the ballots??were finally counted in the Iowa straw poll on the evening of Aug. 11, former Governor Mitt Romney was the winner, with 31.5% of the vote. But it was Mike Huckabee, the laid-back former Governor of Arkansas, who bounded into the press tent ahead of the others to exult in his second-place finish. Romney's win was preordained--he spent a reported $2 million on the event and has led in Iowa polls since mid-May. But Huckabee, who has raised only $1.3 million all year and spent less than $150,000 on the straw...
Jubilant were Berlin's ultra Reds, led by blond, broad-shouldered, blustering Ernst Thalmann. Rolling up 408,642 votes, his Communist party easily topped Berlin's poll. The Socialists were No. 2, with 346,014 ballots???thus proving Berlin the world's most radical capital of a Great Power next to Moscow. National returns showed a Communist gain throughout Germany of 40%, the party jumping from 54 Reichstag seats...
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