(Name your Candidate) was crushed in the presidential straw poll at the anal “Conservative Fudge Packers Political Action Conference” by Ron Paul who earned 30 percent of the vote/
(Name your Candidate) did speak at the Fudge Packers Convention, or was a sponsor of the Fudge Packers convention.
However (Name your Candidate) has either not enough money, or not enough supporters, or not enough organization to compete with Ron Paul, who crushed (Name your Candidate), who got 6% or less of the vote, compared to Ron Paul’s 30%.
That story applies to every candidate out there (except Huck and Barbour). That story does apply to Palin.
The story is slightly different for Romney. After winning 3 years in a row, Romney is stuck in 2nd place behind Ron Paul for the 2nd straight year. This points to upward momentum for Ron Paul and downward momentum for Romney at the Fudge Packer conference that almost every candidate either attended or sponsored.
Here’s the point. You can call CPAC a fudge packer conference all you want. Reagan attended CPAC over 10 times. Palin sponsored, Bachmann attended, all the quasiRINO, who are they exactly candidates all attended, just like Ron Paul did. They all campaigned. They all made speeches. And Ron Paul crushed.
I am not arguing that CPAC results measure general popularity with the Republican Primary electorate.