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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
If there is this huge demand for Palin, why did she get less than 35 votes at the Iowa SP out of 17,000 cast? These thousands of Palin supporters should have been willing to crawl over broken glass to vote for her.

Because those thousands of Palin supporters were not allowed to cast ballots. In order to cast a ballot, you have to purchase a ticket for a fundraiser for the state Republican Party. Those tickets were quickly snapped up by party hacks who wanted to ensure their candidate got a good showing. That's how Ron Paul ended up in second place, only about 150 votes behind Bachmann. You think that is an indicator of how Ron Paul will do when the real primary season starts?

Then you had announced frontrunner candidates like Rick Perry and Mitt Romney who only got a few votes because they decided not to expend their energies on it, because it is such a worthless poll that is easily manipulated by party hacks.

Guess how well 2008 nominee John McCain did in the same straw poll back in 2007?

He got a whopping 0.7% of the vote.

And in 1987, Pat Robertson was the winner of this poll. Yes, the same Pat Robertson who claims that God diverts hurricanes for him.

So basically the Ames Straw Poll is nothing but a joke...a diversion to help get bored journalists through the dog days of summer.

159 posted on 08/21/2011 3:38:54 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76
Because those thousands of Palin supporters were not allowed to cast ballots.

That's quite a charge!

the Ames Straw Poll is nothing but a joke...a diversion to help get bored journalists through the dog days of summer.

It's a fundraiser, designed to be a bit of fun. It's not a serious referendum.

167 posted on 08/21/2011 3:49:12 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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