” How do straw poll results affect anything really? “
Just read where a tweet reported that Romney had a portion of his delegates vote for CAIN, to skew the results. Dirty tricks was mentioned. No way to tell if this true but found it in reports from commenters on hotair.com.
Another poll is always a snapshot in time and based on events. Recent debate disasters, momentum, great debate successes, gaffes, but all events. The measurement of those events and the mood of the delegates delivers an outcome for the day. And maybe some dirty tricks here and there. :(
Although it is true, Milt is Master of the Dirty Tricks,
THAT is not one of them.
Romney will pay money (donated to Sen. Brown, for example)
for votes for himself. Not for anyone else.
Milt Romney may be a liberal political cross-dresser
but he is not a fool.
I doubt that is true but if it was, it would be kind of dumb because it could have denied Romney an outright victory as his vote total was almost equal to Perry's.
And you believe that? Of course you do.
I can think of few things more absurd than the thought of Mitt Romney asking his delegates to vote for someone other than him.
The tweet was the dirty, lying trick.
Given the source, Matt Gaetz, has spun for Perry in the past, I have a hard time giving this report credence. If it came from a truly independent source, then it would be more believable.