Posted on 09/25/2011 7:21:23 PM PDT by Quicksilver
In the straw poll, Romney won 50.1 percent of the 681 votes cast compared to 16.8 percent for Perry. Both men gave separate speeches Saturday to the activists gathered for their biennial conference, with Perry winning some supporters but Romney clearly the overwhelming favorite. Michigan gave Romney his only primary win in the 2008 presidential contest before he pulled out of the race once it became clear Arizona Sen. John McCain would win the nomination.
Cain got 8.5 percent, while Texas Rep. Ron Paul got 7.7 percent. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann received 4 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won 3.5 percent and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum got 3.4 percent. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman got 2 percent, while Michigan Rep. Thad McCotter, who dropped out of the race Thursday, came in at under 1 percent with just five votes.
Straw poll voters also chose Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as their favorite to be the party's vice presidential nominee. He got 23 percent of the 481 votes cast, while Cain received 14 percent, Gingrich got 13 percent and Bachmann received 12 percent.
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CBS is the one trying to give us Romney.
CBS news wastes time reporting on a straw poll vote of 481 people?!?? Why didn’t they just put an intern on a street corner and ask them who they liked in the GOP race?
Obviously Romney would win in MI. He’s all for the big unions and everyone knows that probably only Santorem, Huntsman, Bachmann and Johnson are as well. (not certain about them, but no indication that they don’t support labor unions)
Santorum also needs his turn.
Damned Michiganders. You have no heart.
http://news.yahoo.com/romney-plans-quadruple-size-california-home-192804053.html
Romney plans to quadruple the size of his California home [La Jolla]
Jindal is not a natural born citizen so he could not run.
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By your standards, neither is Romney then.
I couldn’t find anything on a Utah Straw Poll. And it doesn’t matter, Hunstman will not win it, Romney will - and by a huge margin.
“...Jindal is not a natural born citizen so he could not run...”
Apparently, the last election proved that’s not a limiting factor anymore...
I’m just SAYIN’, is all.... :^)
The establishment is also pushing a coronation of Romney.
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