Apologies to any who feel I am spamming this message on campaign threads, but it is an important message on a key vote which needs to get out.
Posted on 01/28/2008 1:53:03 PM PST by Spiff
Maricopa County Republicans conducted a Presidential Straw Poll during the Jan. 19 Maricopa County Republican Committee meeting in Tempe. In the first category the delegates were able to vote for only their first choice for president.
Those results were as follows.
Presidential Straw Poll with 721 ballots cast:
188 Mitt Romney 26% 121 Fred Thompson 17% 115 Ron Paul 16% 93 Duncan Hunter 13% 80 John McCain 11% 33 Rudy Giuliani 9% 32 Mike Huckabee 9%
In the second voting category, the delegates were able to vote for more than one candidate as unacceptable. In the Unacceptable Category 427 out of 721 (59%) of the delegates declared McCain as one of their unacceptable candidates. The tallies were:
396 Paul 357 Giuliani 340 Huckabee 156 Hunter 152 Thompson 121 Romney
In the third category, the delegates were able to vote for more than one candidate as acceptable.
Those results were as follows:
358 Hunter 356 Romney 235 Giuliani 207 Huckabee 135 McCain 120 Paul
These issues were rated by the delegates as the most important for the presidential candidates to address:
552 WIN WAR AGAINST TERROR 518 REDUCE GOV'T SPENDING 406 LOWER TAXES 390 SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS 271 PRO-LIFE 226 CITIZEN'S GUN RIGHTS 196 DOMESTIC OIL PRODUCTION 106 CHOICE OF PRIVATE SS ACCOUNTS
Maricopa Republicans Presidential Straw Poll Vote Results
427 McCain
370 Thompson
643 STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
McCain: Detested by those who know him best!
I think this is more telling than it first, may seem. In HIS OWN STATE, McCain comes in 6th! And then in the Unacceptable Category, McCain comes in 1st! This really says something.
So what, it is a poll among Brothers taking their lead from Salt Lake City....
Ouch!
[Trouble is, AZ will probably vote to send McCain back to the Senate, if he runs again.]
hahahahah! McCaustic’s home voters dislike him! To know McCain is to hate McCain.
Wow! This has to hurt. McQueeg can’t even get the Republicans in his own state.
Apologies to any who feel I am spamming this message on campaign threads, but it is an important message on a key vote which needs to get out.
I’m no Mitthead, but I’ll be voting for him in Arizona next week. If Mitt drops out, what the hell are we left with????? If Rudy does drop out, and it seems likely, we’re down to Mitt, Huckabee, and McCain. These rabid Mitt-haters need a dose of reality juice. Mitt isn’t the conservative we all were hoping for. That ship has sailed. However, he’s the closest thing to it. I know that isn’t saying much, but we conservatives have so little to choose from this time around. I think we have the best chance of conservative SCOTUS judges with Mitt and possibly Huckabee, who is my own ‘Unacceptable’ right next to Huckabee.
The pickin’s are getting slimmer and slimmer, but ANYone is preferable to the two Democrats. If we end up with a Democrat Congress, we conservatives will be treated with the contempt we deserve since our duly elected Congress people have no backbone even when they’re in the majority. I’ll never, ever understand that. With Mitt, I think he’d at least be a strong leader and we would have a chance he’d support our pet causes. Even if he was a disaster, it would still be better than Obama or Hillary who both GUARANTEE a return to far-left ideology.
Last time an indy most had never heard of ran against McCain. I voted for the indy. Most of the time, John McCain is the only name on the ballot in that race.
Is Arizona an open or closed Primary? Can democrats vote for McCain?
McCain more detested than Paul, the world is again at peace.
It’s a closed primary.
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