Romney Beats Paul In SRLC Straw Poll…
…by one vote.
Mitt Romney’s total of 439 votes topped Ron Paul’s 438.
Each had 24 percent of the vote, while Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin each had 18 percent. Mike Huckabee was next with four percent, Mike Pence and Tim Pawlenty had three percent each, with Rick Santorum at two percent and Gary Johnson at one percent.
There were 1,806 votes cast.
The poll also asked respondents for their second-choice votes, and Gingrich was the winner with 339 votes to Palin’s 332. Romney came in third on second-choice votes with 242.
Sounds like Mitt and Paul may have stuffed the ballot box with their supporters.
According to this article and its posters, that is exactly what happened: (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35617.html). When are politicians going to get it in their heads–these kinds of tactics infuriate voters like me–a conservative Independent. STOP the BS and the CORRUPTION in our government and political process. The Democrats (Soros, et al.) hand-picked Obama, and now, we have Republicans buying tickets for votes? Don't they ever learn? (BTW–Romney, Paul, or Palin would NOT be my straw poll choices.)
That is absolutely what happened. Romney's people were giving away free tickets to SRLC to anybody who would commit to voting for him.
Paul spams every straw poll he can. He did the exact same thing at CPAC that he did this weekend; somebody just came along and did it better this time.
SRLC's straw poll was a newsmaker for the conference, but it's meaningless.
Sounds like Mitt and Paul may have stuffed the ballot box with their supporters.
According to this article and its posters, that is exactly what happened: (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35617.html). When are politicians going to get it in their heads–these kinds of tactics infuriate voters like me–a conservative Independent. STOP the BS and the CORRUPTION in our government and political process. The Democrats (Soros, et al.) hand-picked Obama, and now, we have Republicans buying tickets for votes? Don't they ever learn? (BTW–Romney, Paul, or Palin would NOT be my straw poll choices.)
That is absolutely what happened. Romney's people were giving away free tickets to SRLC to anybody who would commit to voting for him.
Paul spams every straw poll he can. He did the exact same thing at CPAC that he did this weekend; somebody just came along and did it better this time.
SRLC's straw poll was a newsmaker for the conference, but it's meaningless.