(CNN) -- Texas Rep. Ron Paul won a California straw poll, the state Republican Party announced in a statement Saturday night.

A total of 833 ballots were cast during the straw poll, the statement said.

Paul won with 44.9% of the votes, Texas Gov. Rick Perry came in second with 29.3% of the votes, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came in third with 8.8% of the votes.

The California Republican Party, associated members and registered guests were allowed to vote in the straw poll, according to the statement.
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NO! This is not good, comrades. Ron Paul is the Anti-Obamessiah, come to lead us into a horrible dystopia of such things as "capitalism" and "freedom" and "liberty" and all the absolute worst of the nightmare that the Rethuglikkkans wish to enslave the masses into.

Ron Paul is the only republican candidate I trust because he is consistent, did not manage the presidential campaign of Al Gore and is not a religious demagogue or country club neo-con beholden to any sacred cow. You are ignorant if you are on the "crazy old Ron" bus. The republican field is a bunch of mechanical clones spouting the same lines that Ron has been preaching for years just because it is career advancing now to do so. Wake up.

Loяd Soяos and I agree, Ron Paul is our Яэpublikaи Kaиdidatэ .