Ok, how is it that when you have to pay $30 to vote and there are two candidates known for paying people’s voting tax, just how is a straw poll an indication of anything?
>>>Ok, how is it that when you have to pay $30 to vote and there are two candidates known for paying people’s voting tax, just how is a straw poll an indication of anything?
It’s an indication of the strength of a campaign organization’s ability to motivate its supporters.
Exactly what Rick Perry must have thought. And he may be right. But the media are there, and it is a test of campaign organizational strength.
A little-known candidate, just as did Huckabee in ‘08, could make enough of a name for themselves by finishing well.
Well -- it isn't! But I guess people are so eager to vote against Obama that they will spend hours of TV time (and megabytes of bandwidth) trying desperately to attach some meaning to this. In a perverse way, I hope Ron Paul wins it. At least then everyone will agree with us that it was meaningless.