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Ron Paul said Wednesday that he was "not entirely" surprised by recent polls that show the Texas congressman in a four-way tie among likely Iowa caucus-goers, and said that his speaking time at Saturday's presidential debate was limited to just 89 seconds because "special interests" were against his message.

"They're fearful of hearing the truth," Paul said after a speech at the Cato Institute on the Federal Reserve. "I go after the status quo."

Paul said that news that he had pulled into a statistical dead heat with Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich in a Bloomberg poll of Iowa was not unexpected, and that his message had been growing in strength.

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