It is actually ten months and all he could get was 174 votes. He may see himself as "working his tail off" but has no organization, no volunteers. To use a military analogy Hunter would like: No one man army ever won a war.
Whoa! Hunter has won straw polls, and the reason he didn’t do better in this one is because he was doing the people’s work, PROTECTING us working on Iraq issues, which is why he got to Iowa late.
While Hunter was WORKING, the others were campaigning.
Hunter isn’t that far behind Rudy, and Rudy in No. 1 in the National polls (sadly Rudy is #1, but my point is, this Ames straw poll is not the end all).
8. Rudy Giuliani 183 votes
9. Duncan Hunter 174 votes
10. John McCain 101 votes