• winners In the Des Moines Register’s influential Iowa primary poll, leading lights Herman Cain and Mitt Romney effectively tied (23 percent and 22 percent, respectively), and Ron Paul had a solid third-place finish in the poll.
• losers Michele Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll back in August, but the poll showed a massive decline in support — just eight percent. Her staff downplayed the results. Meanwhile, Rick Perry has an anemic seven percent. source

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