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DAVENPORT, IA - JANUARY 02: Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep Ron Paul (R-TX) speaks at a campaign event during his "Whistle-stop" tour at the Steeple Gate inn in January 2, 2012 in Davenport, Iowa. A poll published Saturday by the state's largest newspaper, The Des Moines Register, put Paul in second place of a large field of GOP candidates going into Tuesday's "first in the nation" Iowa Caucuses. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP