Posted on 10/09/2011 9:40:57 AM PDT by free_life
Rep. Ron Paul easily won a Republican presidential candidate straw poll Saturday at the conservative Values Voter Summit in Washington, while two of the most popular candidates in the race — Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — finished near the bottom.
Mr. Paul won with 37 percent of the vote, while businessman Herman Cain, who has been surging in the polls recently, finished in second with 23 percent. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum finished third with 16 percent.
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Mr. Perry and Rep. Michele Bachmann officially tied for fourth place with 8 percent of the vote, although Mr. Perry’s 167 votes was 10 more than Mrs. Bachmann’s tally. Mr. Romney, who has struggled to win the support of conservative voters, had 4 percent.
Mr. Perkins, when asked to explain why Mr. Perry and Mr. Romney did so poorly in the poll, suggested that conservative voters “are still in the process of deciding where they want to go.”
“This is really a testing ground for what it’s going to take for someone to capture the Republican nomination” for president, he said.
yeah, he’s the 99%.
LOL
Do these Christian conservatives prefer Osama Bin Ladin and Al-Awlaki alive or dead?
Ron Paul wants them captured alive.
Ok so the Soc Cons voted in block of a Libertarian who opposes almost all their entire political agenda?
I’m starting to get the feeling that the Obarry supporters on the commie left have infiltrated these “straw polls”.
Do these voters who favor Ron Paul support the idea that Iran should be allowed to develop and have nuclear weapons (in order to destroy Israel and threaten Europe )?
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I heard it mentioned on FOX this morning that the Paul voters showed just long enough to vote then left. They didn’t stick around long enough to hear anyone else speak or anything.
Nut-job Paul.
“Values Voter straw poll organizers suggest a fix in Ron Paul’s win”
“Rep. Ron Paul scored a decisive victory Saturday in a mock presidential election at the Values Voter Summit, trouncing fellow Texan, Gov. Rick Perry, but an organizer of the straw poll suggested ballot-stuffing may have skewed the results.
In a press conference following the announcement of the straw poll results at the annual Washington gathering of social conservatives, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins all but dismissed the results as irrelevant, citing 600 people who registered Saturday morning and, he said, “left after Ron Paul spoke.”
A total of 1,983 ballots were cast. “You do the math,” Perkins said.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2790084/posts
Figures.
And just when you know the OWS crowd is infecting the city.
Ron Paul wins straw polls because it is not illegal to buy votes in straw polls
I imagine they voted for Paul and went back to their flea-infested sleeping bags.
mmmmm the man stands for homo marriage, the homo agenda, he has no problem is a crack house is next to a school and wants open borders plus get rid of the CIA, FBI etc
Ah yes I really believe this wasn’t fixed by his nutty supporters ARF
I believe that is exactly what’s going on.
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