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McCain Wins SC Straw Poll
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| 3/2/07
Posted on 03/02/2007 3:44:18 PM PST by areafiftyone
1. Sen. John McCain was the surprise winner of last night's Spartanburg, SC straw poll, eclipsing ex-NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani for the lead today. Some McCain opponents grumbled that McCain suddenly "found" 50 votes, but we don't think Spartanburg GOP chair Rick Beltram -- not a particularly huge McCain fan -- would have certified the results if he'd been suspicious about fraud. The results:
McCain 164 Rudy 162 Hunter 158 Brownback 85 Romney 80 Huckabee 21
2. As we reported below, McCain picked up the support of noted GOP strategist Charlie Black. It's a major Beltway get.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2008pubbies; duncanhunter; electionpresident; elections; giuliani; hunter; mccain; nowaymccain; romney; rudy; spartanburg; traitorjohn
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To: areafiftyone
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posted on
03/02/2007 3:46:58 PM PST
by
neverhillorat
(HILLORAT WINS, WE ALL LOSE)
To: areafiftyone
Someone call in Gore and Jesse Jackson.....
This is ridiculous.
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posted on
03/02/2007 3:48:50 PM PST
by
padre35
(I am from the "let's stop eating our own" wing of the Republican Party)
To: areafiftyone
I still do not believe McCain will carry the state!
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posted on
03/02/2007 3:49:19 PM PST
by
Livin_large
(Hunter '08)
To: areafiftyone
Hunter did well, hope this leads to more exposure.
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posted on
03/02/2007 3:50:35 PM PST
by
icwhatudo
(The rino borg...is resistance futile?)
To: areafiftyone
The baseball season is 162 games long and now 'McCain' is 1-0. whoopee.
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posted on
03/02/2007 3:51:43 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(It's time our lawmakers paid more attention to their responsibilities, and less to their privileges.)
To: areafiftyone
Who down in that area can tell us what this all means? Probably not much of anything.
To: Blackirish; Jameison; Sabramerican; BunnySlippers; tkathy; veronica; Roccus; Jake The Goose; ...
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posted on
03/02/2007 3:52:23 PM PST
by
areafiftyone
(RUDY GIULIANI 2008 - STRENGTH AND LEADERSHIP)
To: areafiftyone
Also no one can now say Rudy rigged it!
To: areafiftyone
McCain 164 Rudy 162 Hunter 158 Brownback 85 Romney 80 Huckabee 21 Uh... How can you look at these results and not see that the true big story is Hunter's strong showing.
Answer: You're the MSM.
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posted on
03/02/2007 3:53:33 PM PST
by
rhinohunter
(1 RINO down...4 to go!!!)
To: icwhatudo
Hunter did way better than I would have expected.....GOOD!
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posted on
03/02/2007 3:53:36 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
To: Livin_large
I don't either and I don't understand why he got so many votes. I can understand Duncan Hunter winning he was in Spartenburg and his group was camped out doing their job, but not McCain. Something is very weird here.
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posted on
03/02/2007 3:54:15 PM PST
by
areafiftyone
(RUDY GIULIANI 2008 - STRENGTH AND LEADERSHIP)
To: areafiftyone
Are you telling me that some 400 voters in SC will mean one whit 10 months out till superTuesday. McCaine this is as good as it will get.LOL
To: areafiftyone
This is bad.
Now, we are going to have to start having Jimmah 'I escaped the killer rabbit' Carter oversee GOP voting.
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posted on
03/02/2007 4:07:23 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: neverhillorat
LOL. Yeah. Beats Rudy by 2, in South Carolina! Hunter placed well, so kudos to his people, but I don't understand this whole straw vote thing....the winner wins with 164 votes? Who did they survey? People in the Safeway parking lot?
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posted on
03/02/2007 4:08:37 PM PST
by
My2Cents
To: rhinohunter
How can you look at these results and not see that the true big story is Hunter's strong showing.answer: he only got 158 votes. I got more votes running for senior class president.
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posted on
03/02/2007 4:10:33 PM PST
by
My2Cents
To: neverhillorat
Wow, changes my vote!We can count on you, right?
lol
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posted on
03/02/2007 4:10:58 PM PST
by
Rudder
To: areafiftyone
1 county down, 3042 to go.
18
posted on
03/02/2007 4:12:13 PM PST
by
msnimje
(Brian Camenker - The Right's own version of marKOS Moulitsas Zúniga of Daily Kos)
To: areafiftyone
They been cheatin', there is a conspiracy, I demand a recount. Rudy should have one this hands down. Something ain't right here, did all of the black folk get to vote, were the ballots confusing ? Many folks with Italian names who tried to vote were turned away from the polls. Whats this crap about closing early because of a snow storm?
There better be a hearing into this fiasco.
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posted on
03/02/2007 4:12:59 PM PST
by
Candor7
To: Candor7
I dunno...I stayed up and watched the results. When I went to bed, Rudy was the winner, with Hunter 2nd, and McLame a distant 3rd.
Something stinks in Sparkle City.
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posted on
03/02/2007 4:19:21 PM PST
by
gruntSGT
(Card Carrying Foaming at the Mouth Lindsay Graham Hater.)
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