Fifteen minutes remain until the polls close at the straw poll and there isn't much of a push to get the vote out. Shortly after the speeches ended around 4 p.m., much of the estimated crowd of 40,000 began filing off campus.

Outside, the Tancredo crowd had basically disappeared and Romney's workers are loading supplies onto buses.

Inside, the television news crews are filing to the risers in preparation for their 6 o'clock news casts.

-- By Chris Dorsey