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Posted on 04/28/2015 7:08:22 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
The past week was a very good one for Ted Cruz in South Carolina, as he swept the straw polls at four bi-annual Republican county conventions, and one county GOP Executive Committee bi-monthly meeting.
The first came as Cruz won the Anderson County GOP convention straw poll as follows: Cruz 27%, Walker 25%, Rubio 15%, Huckabee 9%, Graham and Perry 6% each, Santorum 5%, Bush, Paul and Carson 1% each.
But the biggest prizes came for Cruz as he won Greenville, Spartanburg and Aiken GOP convention straw polls all on the same day as follows:
Greenville: Cruz 28%, Walker 22%, Carson 8.5%, Rubio and Santorum 8% each, Bush 5%, Paul and Huckabee 3% each, Graham 3%, Perry 2%, Fiorina 1%
Spartanburg: Cruz 32%, Walker 30%, Santorum 14%, Paul 7%, Others 16% combined.
In the Aiken straw poll, voters could vote for multiple candidates by listing their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices. Scott Walker got the most total votes, but Cruz edged Walker out in 1st choice votes as follows: Cruz 36%, Walker 32%, Rubio 14%, Santorum 9%, Paul 6%
And finally, late last week came the Dorchester county GOP Executive Committee straw poll: Cruz 30%, Walker 25%, Carson 16%, Rubio 11%, Paul 7%, Graham 4%, Santorum 2%, Kasich 2%
Greenville and Spartanburg are by far the two largest and most populated GOP voting counties in the state and count for more than 20% of the total GOP primary vote. The two counties accounted for nearly half of Governor Haley’s 2010 general election net votes.
In order to vote in a GOP convention straw poll, a person must attend their bi-annual precinct reorganization meeting, an be elected as a delegate to their county convention, and pay a registration fee to attend. In the case of the Dorchester Executive Committee, individuals have to attend their precinct reorganization meetings and be elected as a Precinct Committeeman which makes them a voting member of the county Executive Committee. So these straw polls are not ones that can have outside people brought in to vote and sway the results.
While GOP convention and Executive Committee straw polls do not fully represent the primary electorate as a whole, they are a sampling of the most active members of the Republican Party and conservative activists. Having command of their early support can help propel a candidate to later success with the general electorate.
When looking at the numbers from all 5 straw polls combined, four interesting things stand out as a pattern:
1. Ted Cruz won each poll by a pretty consistent margin, and with a pretty consistent percentage of the vote.
2. Similarly, Scott Walker came in a consistent 2nd place by a similar margin, and took a similar percentage of the vote in each poll.
(Take a look at the matchup in all five polls between Cruz and Walker.)
Greenville: Cruz 28%, Walker 22%
Spartanburg: Cruz 32%, Walker 30%
Anderson: Cruz 27%, Walker 25%
Dorchester: Cruz 30%, Walker 25%
Aiken: Cruz 36%, Walker 32%
3. Jeb Bush did not get above 5% of the vote in any of the polls, and in Dorchester and Aiken he received zero votes.
4. Similar to Jeb Bush, Rand Paul scored very low in all polls, especially in Greenville 3%, and Anderson 1%.
Steven Wright, a conservative activist from Dorchester was a voting member in Dorchester’s straw poll. Wright said that he is excited to be helping with the grassroots effort for the Ted Cruz campaign. “The American people are ready for a leader that does what he promises. Senator Cruz has been an active fighter for freedom and limited government in the U.S Senate. I see a large amount of grassroots support here in the Low Country for Senator Cruz. The grassroots are ready to take our country back and we see Senator Cruz as the only candidate in the race who will do that.” Wright said
One of biggest GOP straw poll prizes in SC will be awarded this Saturday evening as paying attendees of the annual Silver Elephant Banquet cast their votes. Ted Cruz will be one of the attending speakers. Unlike the county conventions, attendees to the banquet do not have to be elected, merely purchase a $40 ticket. It will be interesting to see the results.
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All these pollsters who have, of late, been showing Walker, Bush and Rubio leading the pack, and Cruz near the bottom, are going to have egg on their faces when the Caucuses and Primaries begin. Remember the “Miracle” he pulled off in the Texas Senate Race in 2010.
Gonna go pony up some more at www.tedcruz.org
Remember, the limit is only $2,600. So if you really care about conservatism, you are limited.
Early money is like yeast.
Interesting that Bush is so low in SC. He was counting on that to be his ‘turnaround’ state, like McCain in 2008.
Also, Gramnesty isn’t showing. Isn’t that ‘his’ state?
Yes, and these polls were conducted in unabashed conservative counties here in the Upstate of SC. Naturally he would do good here, as did Newt in 2012 over the Mittster. Hoping that translates into popular support for Ted across the nation.
folks need to get away from the low life Huckster...and Santorum is going now where. Not a bad guy but wont make it.
Yes, and these polls were conducted in unabashed
conservative counties here in the Upstate of SC.
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Any idea of how many may attend these meetings? It
would seem to me they would be the hard core GOP members.
Thanks....
I think many see Cruz as the “law and order” candidate after seeing the shocking violence in the cities of the last year or so (Ferguson, MO, New York City, and now Baltimore) from protests running amok. That’s why I said Cruz has been very careful with its public statements, since he wants to be positioned get support from voters tired of troubles caused by a small minority of people.
It's surprising to me that linda got any votes at all. She's not a conservative and never pays attention to her constituents.
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Good points!
Great news!
>> Interesting that Bush is so low in SC. He was counting on that to be his ‘turnaround’ state, like McCain in 2008.
Keep in mind that these straw polls are “skewed” in that they only include republicans. SC is an open-primary state and at least 20% of the dhimmis cross over to sabotage the primary. So, unfortunately, Bush will do much better in the primary than in these straw polls unless conservatives coalesce behind Cruz.
DO NOT TRUST RAND PAUL!™
Gonna go pony up some more at www.tedcruz.orgOutstanding! Now is a very good time to contribute to help Cruz for President meet their April end-of-month fundraising goal. It's important to make a good showing in the first full month that Cruz is competing against other announced candidates.
The limits in the primary are $2,700 per individual or $5,400 per couple. The same limits apply to contributions for the general election.
I was looking through the 1st Qtr report from the Cruz campaign submitted to the FEC covering just nine days in March. Some Cruz contributors have already maxed out on the primary election and are allocating donations to the general election as well. It's very encouraging and heartwarming to see the support given to Ted Cruz.
Others can help here >>> https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/
McCain’s GF at 4%.
LOL!
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