February 12, 2011 - 2:38 pm
Fox has it. He won with 30 percent of the vote. Second year in a row. The rest fall out as follows:
Former MA Gov. Mitt Romney, 23%
Former NM Gov. Gary Johnson and NJ Gov. Christ Christie, 6% (tie)
Newt Gingrich, 5%
Pawlenty, Bachmann and Daniels each got 4%
Palin, 3%
To anyone who thinks these numbers will bear any relationship at all to the 2012 GOP primary, I have a bridge I’d like to sell you. Urban location, historic and quite beautiful. And cheap!
Update: Doug Ross has a full graphic breakout of the bought straw poll, with salient commentary.
The Straw poll is total crap. Ron Paul uses Organizing for America tactics, paying for and/or subsidizing transportation, meals, and lodging to stack the poll. They are there with one specific mission:
Vote in the Straw Poll. They want to create the illusion that there is a mandate.
There isn’t.
Most don’t participate in this charade of a poll.
Shame on Ron Paul and Campaign for Liberty for deluding these young, mind numbed robots into thinking that Mr. Paul has a snowball’s chance of winning the nomination.
Devotion to a cult of personality is a dangerous thing, used most often by the left, but imitated successfully by CFL and Paul.
Paul runs the risk of deluding, then permanently disappointing a vast sector of the youth vote.
For shame.
Nothing like telling the young people of America who they should vote for….thanks for the chuckles above, P. Henry.
It’s true. The Republicans will never come to their senses. They’ll nominate Romney, or someone like him. Obamacare will be renamed Romneycare, much in the way that Bush’s Iraq is now Obama’s Iraq. The names change, but the parties remain identical.
I flirted with going to the CPAC the past few years. This Ron Paul business is one reason I decided to never go.
That straw poll is undermining the credibility of CPAC.