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Posted on 09/05/2007 11:17:42 AM PDT by Hurricane Bruiser
ANNAPOLIS— After eleven days of presidential straw poll ballots cast at the Maryland Republican Party’s State Fair booth, Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) was announced last night as the winner.
The Maryland Republican Party’s first-ever presidential straw poll at the State Fair resulted in nearly 1,000 Marylanders casting a vote for their favorite Republican candidate for president.
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Great, what’s he got now around our nation for the Republican primary, polling 68% or what?
Ron Paul is good at winning straw polls. But he’d probably register in single digits against Hillary.
The Paulbearer Moonbattery Factor for this Thread HAS BEEN ELEVATED to
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Let him enjoy his little victories while he can.
No....but Paul is moving up, now ahead of Hunter, Brownback and Tancredo. Despite a media black-out (including talk radio and Fox), he is now up to 3 percent.
Yet another victory for Ron Paul.
You’re being overly optimistic — or just overly kind to an old loon.
Here ya go!
Not true. A major pollster (it was discussed about a month ago on FR) found that he'd get over 30 percent against Hillary. Imagine what he would get if the media bothered to cover him. Actually, a Paul candidacy is Hillary's worst nightmare. He could constantly remind the public that she has a consistent record in disasterous world policing and voted to authorize this war.
3% sounds like a mighty surge, wow.
That's what they said about the primaries and straw polls, but for the sake of discussion, let's agree to that assertion. We're back to the old argument of voting for principle or voting for another Rockefeller Republican, "compassionate" (read: Not) conservative that, in this election, will be the extinction level event for conservatism and, by extension, the Constitution.
Maryland, is that a state, maybe once, was called The Free State, now one party state.
And you, of course, are being fair and objective and always take the high road, right? Did you also make fun of Ronald Reagan, the oldest president in U.S. history. Just wondering.
Coming from Maryland, Ron Paul winning is no surprise
You are just a fool.
Single digits, no way!
.25%, maybe even .75% at least!
Double digits every time!
You don't have to do it. A Paul/Hillary match-up was done over a month a ago by a major pollster and showed him getting over 30 percent (despite his very low name recognition).
I wonder how many democrats voted in this poll.
Romney does very well in straw polls too - but only when he busses in supporters and spends lavishly on food and entertainment. Somehow, that isn’t treated as “spamming the polls”.
And of course Hunter does ok when every other major candidate skips the poll and the state decides to limit voters to prior year delegates.
Ron Paul conquers the Universe!
Do the Paulistinians remind anyone else of King Jong Il’s cult of personality?
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