Palin Wins January Straw Poll; Romney in 2nd

Townhall.com email ^ | 1 February 2011 | Townhall Staff

[Windflier]

After tens of thousands of votes were cast in the January Townhall/HotAir GOP presidential Straw Poll, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took the victory with 22% of the vote. Coming in 2nd was former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with just over 14%.

[Windflier]

Voting is already underway in our February poll...

Due to popular demand we've added a few names of some other potential GOP contenders who have expressed interest in running: Texas Governor Rick Perry, Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann, Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan, and Ambassador Jon Huntsman. To be fair we also have randomly rearranged the order of the candidates on the poll.

[stevecmd]

pissant will be most unhappy........

[Windflier]

Townhall Presidential Straw Poll results ping.

[Windflier]

pissant will be most unhappy....

That's ok. He's used to being that way .. LOL

[GoCards]

Who is Gary Johnson?

[Windflier]

Who is Gary Johnson?

LOL .. I have no clue. Apparently, neither do 99% of Republican voters.

[albie]

“Who is Gary Johnson”?

...a guy with a really bad haircut/toupee

[NavyCanDo]

“pissant will be most unhappy........”

LOL! He was the first person I thought of when I read the headline. He’ll be on here soon saying you can’t trust polls.

[Libloather]

LOVE YA SARAH!

[ScottinVA]

Mixed bag; not much on issues beyond pro-drug legalization and pro-choice. Need to see stances on immigration, 0bamaCare, foreign policy, defense issues, etc.

(Excerpted from The Hill):

Gary Johnson

Ideology: To the libertarian right. Opposes the War on Drugs, and believes states should make drug policy; not the feds. Kyoto Treaty should only be adopted if it’s adopted by all relevant countries.

A libertarian on economic and moral issues, and endorsed Ron Paul for President in 2008.

Pro-choice, but received the Right to Life Committee’s endorsement in his re-election bid for his work on other life issues, such as bans on partial-birth abortion and Medicaid-funded abortion.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Gov. Christie is a RINO, but I do like him in his role as Mike on the new sitcom Mike and Molly, though.

[JaguarXKE]

Republican Governor before Richardson. Gary wants to legalize pot.

[ScottinVA]

Christie and DeMint aren’t running, so those “moderate” and conservative votes would fall somewhere else.

[4rcane]

who’s hermain cain. Thats a pretty impressive number for someone I never heard of his name before. I’ve heard of name of ppl with less support than him

[JaguarXKE]

I should have mentioned - Gov of New Mexico.

[onyx]

She won January! February voting is already underway! I didn't know about the poll, so let's vote this time! SARAH PALIN’S PING LIST

[hennie pennie]

Isn't there a Certain Someone missing from this poll?????????

Just look at all those names.....

[Captain Kirk]

He’s also a staunch defender of the second amendment, tax cuts, and against nation-building.

[EternalVigilance]

He’s also a staunch defender of a “right” to slaughter little babies.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Bachmann boosters certainly deserve to be heard from.

I’d like to see a poll where it is possible to choose presidential and vice presidential running mates separately. Almost never does it happen that the “runner up” in the presidential primaries for a major party goes on the ballot as a VP. For example Bachmann might want to nominate Herman Cain, passing over more popular RINOs.