It appears as though all the commie libs in the state run “media” spent all the time digging up garbage on Mormonism for nothing. LOL!!! They’ll get over it.
Or go ahead and spend all you want of YOUR money. We like private $timulus...help wipe out unemployment in the ranks of political hacks and RINO operatives.
Remember McCain? After Ames in 2007, he lost all his campaign staff and his campaign was completely bankrupt. If anything, he was worse off than Mitt is now.
Having said that, Romney won't be the next Republican President of the United States. He might get the nomination, but he won't win the general election. I actually hope he doesn't win the nomination.
I don’t know he will do in the rest of the South, but he and Bachmann will do quite well here in North Carolina.
It’s August of 2011, this doesn’t mean anything. Remember this time four years ago everybody thought the nod was Rudy’s to lose, and then he did. Mitt wasn’t even competing. Votes that matter start in 5 months, everything else is dog and pony.
how does he run on romneycare, comrade?
Romney will never give up, he believes he has a higher calling.
It appears someone doesn’t understand the Iowa Straw Poll..
You print Iowa Straw Poll ballots and you hand them to your supporters that you paid for tickets to attend the event.
If you don’t print ballots or pay the entrance fee for your supporters to attend, obviously you don’t get votes.
Now do you understand why this is a meaningless vote?
Above all of Mitt’s other shortcomings, I find the fact that he wants this SO dang bad unnerving.
Pre-mature celebration. Romney’s 7th place finish means about as much as Ron Paul’s 2nd place finish.
Zero.
Format
The poll takes place among attendees of a fundraising dinner benefiting the Iowa Republican Party. Before the vote, each candidate is given a chance to make a short speech to the attendees.
Non-Republicans are allowed to vote in the Ames Straw Poll. However, all voters must be at least 16 1/2 years of age, be legal residents of the state of Iowa or a student attending an Iowa university/college, and purchase a ticket priced at $30, however most campaigns pay the fee for their supporters.
As a straw poll, the Ames Straw Poll’s results are non-binding and have no official effect on the presidential primaries.
Since its founding, the winner of the Ames Straw Poll has gone on to win the Republican presidential nomination just two out of five times.
Criticisms
Beginning with the 1999 Ames Straw Poll, all voters were required to show proof of legal residence in Iowa.
In 2007, the Ames Straw Poll was criticized for having only 14,302 voters participating compared to about 23,000 voters eight years earlier in the 1999 polls, and for failing to have three of the four leading candidates participate in the poll, Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain and Fred Thompson. Consequently the votes received by Mitt Romney and second-place finisher Mike Huckabee have failed to demonstrate the consequence of full competition among all candidates.
The poll has been criticized for heavily favoring better-funded candidates, as better-funded candidates are able to afford transportation costs to bus in more supporters and to reimburse those supporters for expenses.
Mitt...Rick...but I repeat myself.
His daddy always gets votes in Michigan.
A little too soon to write off the Mittster.....Hopefully someone will primary Obama so that dems don’t crossover and give us another RINO like McLame...... I don’t know about the polls but from people I have talked to here in SC Mitt doesn’t have ANY support here..... He might last to Super Tuesday due to his large amount of Campaign Cash but not much further...
No....I'd suggest he donate hugely (mini-Soros) to our candidate, in the amounts he would have spent on his own ass's dream.
Um, McCain finished 10th here back in 2007.
FOX's misogynist RomneyBOT:
| Place | Candidate | Votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitt Romney | 4,516 | 31.6% |
| 2 | Mike Huckabee | 2,587 | 18.1% |
| 3 | Sam Brownback | 2,192 | 15.3% |
| 4 | Tom Tancredo | 1,961 | 13.7% |
| 5 | Ron Paul | 1,305 | 9.1% |
| 6 | Tommy Thompson | 1,039 | 7.3% |
| 7 | Fred Thompson | 203 | 1.4% |
| 8 | Rudy Giuliani | 183 | 1.3% |
| 9 | Duncan Hunter | 174 | 1.2% |
| 10 | John McCain | 101 | 0.7% |
| 11 | John H. Cox | 41 | 0.3% |
Now explain to me again why Mitt would quit?
Perry received more votes than Mitt, and he wasn’t even in the race! lol