Asked if they’re worried about the Iowa results going forth, a rival no-show camper tells me: “at the end of the day, [Romney] won with less votes than [#2] Forbes did” in the 1999 straw poll. Rival Teamer adds that “Forbes was up against Bush who was spending the same kind of money…. Point being that Romney had the field to himself and was spending money and resources at a rate that paled in comparison to anyone else participating tonight.”
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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