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Posted on 11/05/2007 7:53:11 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ran away with 61 percent of the vote in what the Teton County Republican Party was touting as one of Wyoming’s first straw polls Saturday night.
County GOP Chairman Joe Schloss called Romney’s showing remarkable considering the number of other candidates. About 100 people voted during the party’s Elephant Jam event Saturday at 43 North. The get-together and fundraiser celebrated the one-year countdown to the presidential election.
A straw poll is a nonbinding vote taken before an election to gauge support for each candidate.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani took second, with 12 percent of the vote. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee had 10 percent, U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas each received 5 percent, U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter of California had 4 percent, and lawyer, actor and former Sen. Fred Thompson got 2 percent. Other candidates received 1 percent or less, Schloss said.
Schloss said he thought Romney did well because he is a conservative candidate.
“That goes in line with the way that many of our citizens in Wyoming think,” Schloss said. “By nature I think we’re a conservative group, and certainly Romney fits that bill.”
Schloss said Romney is also one of the few candidates, if not the only one, who has been running a strong campaign in Wyoming, which has just three electoral votes.
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Wow. Bussed in 60 rubes to vote for Precious Willard in a LIBERAL rodent county in Wyoming. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Wow! Every other GOP candidate should just bow out gracefully and get behind the Romney machine. Imagine winning so many votes of 100 cast in a non-binding county straw poll held in a roadside bar! The coordination it must have taken(taking all their drink orders and paying for them). Some might have become scotch drinkers, just for the purposes of the straw poll, I imagine...
In a wealthy liberal county, no less. The only county in WY that Kerry carried in ‘04. Guess Precious Willard reflects THEIR values. Things that make you go “Hmmm...” ;-)
I wonder how much it cost him per vote.
“I wonder how much it cost him per vote.”
“All this bought Romney 31.5 percent of the ballots cast in Ames—4,516 voters, which means the campaign spent at least $650 per vote.”
In an especially calculated move, the Romney campaign has invested heavily in winning local straw polls around the country, which don’t necessarily measure popular support as much as organization and financial resources. Nonetheless, victory can win a news cycle’s worth of attention and hence be used to hype the candidate’s supposed popularity and momentum. In Iowa, Romney hired Nicole Schlinger, founder of Capitol Resources, Inc., a G.O.P.-event-management firm, as his straw-poll director. She helped orchestrate Romney’s triumph at the Ames Straw Poll, which was achieved by shelling out huge sums of money to buy supporters’ tickets for the event, arranging a fleet of buses to bring them in and catering a barbecue lunch to feed them, financing a direct-mail campaign, and paying fees to dozens of “super-volunteers” who promoted Romney (not to mention more than $2 million in television ads in Iowa and roughly $1 million more for organizational support, which included the $191,000 Schlinger was paid). All this bought Romney 31.5 percent of the ballots cast in Ames—4,516 voters, which means the campaign spent at least $650 per vote.
Is it a Mormon county? probably not
I wonder how much he spent per voter for that victory?
What’s your second screen name on the Mitt list? Every time I ping the list you all show up within seconds.
Conservative values cannot be bought and sold. Romney likes to deal with cash and his campaign has prostituted itself to the highest bidder. Yes, a victory to be proud of for all those Romney people.
“Wow! Every other GOP candidate should just bow out gracefully and get behind the Romney machine. Imagine winning so many votes of 100 cast in a non-binding county straw poll held in a roadside bar! The coordination it must have taken(taking all their drink orders and paying for them). Some might have become scotch drinkers, just for the purposes of the straw poll, I imagine...”
Instead of raising money for FR through donations, I think JR should just harvest all the sour grapes around here for sale.
“...it never ceases to amaze me what you can buy for a few hundred dollars in the roadside bar...”
James Carvile, is that you? I see you’ve updated your ‘drag a $100 bill through a trailer park’ line.
Oooga booga. We all have a secret mind-meld, y’know. ;-D
I am not a Mitt supporter, but at least he is working hard. None of the other candidates are doing anything. I like the fact that he is working non stop. We will see if it works out for him.
Just let these hecklers vent there is more Mitt positives on the way!:)
I don’t consider Rudy, Mitt, Ron Paul and to a lesser extent Mike Huckabee to be actual republicans, but rather RINOs.
Nope. Not on it under any name. I just spend way too much time on FR.
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