Next to fall? Cain? Santorum? Gingrich?

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IOWA CITY – The exit of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty from the 2012 Republican presidential campaign after a disappointing third-place finish at the Ames Straw Poll has launched a guessing game about who will fall next.

Since the first Ames Straw Poll in 1979, the person who placed first or second in Ames went on to win the Iowa caucuses.

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