“...the inclusion of more civil libertarian/diversity groups like GOProud...”
Then why post it and take up bandwidth?
cpac rejects Bachmann.
And Palin
Is it just me or is Ann Romney starting to look like Madeline Albright??
CPAC is a bit like a Star Trek convention. There are a lot of people who like the Star Trek TV shows and movies who would never check into a hotel for a weekend to attend a convention. Same thing with conservatives. Other than for think tanks and elected officials there really aren’t a lot of important things you can accomplish there. It’s mostly wonks and nerds and that more or less describes the Ron Paul crowd. So of course he’d come out on top in a convention poll, as would Mr. Spock.
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Ron Paul winning the straw poll is worthless.
It’s amazing how many college stoners you can buy with sufficient quantities of weed and Taco Bell.
It just underscores the fact that CPAC does not represent conservatives and Republicans.
Who the hell is this Gary Johnson other than he’s a kook?
I am sure the Left is really enjoying this bit of crud.
Wow. How impressive. A pro-choice for states libertarian blame-America-first isolationist. The most liberal Governor in the history of the republic. A pro-baby-killing libertarian, and a gun-grabber who preferred Mike Castle to Christine O'Donnell.
2011 CPAC Straw Poll results:
Ron Paul: 30 percent
Mitt Romney: 23 percent
Gary Johnson: 6 percent
Chris Christie: 6 percent
Newt Gingrich: 5 percent
Tim Pawlenty: 4 percent
Michele Bachmann: 4 percent
Mitch Daniels: 4 percent
Sarah Palin: 3 percent
Herman Cain: 2 percent
Mike Huckabee: 2 percent
Rick Santorum: 2 percent
John Thune: 2 percent
Jon Huntsman: 1 percent
Haley Barbour: 1 percent
Others: 5 percent
Undecided: 1 percent
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2010 CPAC straw poll results for comparison:
Heres the final tally.
Ron Paul 31%
Mitt Romney 22%
Sarah Palin 7%
Tim Pawlenty 6%
Mike Pence 5%
Newt Gingrich 4%
Mike Huckabee 4%
Mitch Daniels 2%
John Thune 2%
Rick Santorum 2%
Haley Barbour 1%
Here are a bunch of the Romney supporters celebrating his hard fought second place finish.
Voter fraud...or cyber-wars- We need “boots on the ground” to help put an end to it before 2012.
The majority of the audience did express their disapproval and they voiced it rather loudly too.
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Sorry you couldn’t be there, you could give a 1/3 of a vote to Bachmann - who was there and spoke, Cain and DeMint.
You can feel happy though that Bachmann outpolled Palin, both in the mid/low single digits.
Everyone was there, pretty much, and Ron Paul romped.
After a while, the media might want to start telling the story that the one guy the media doesn’t want to win is winning, and the people they want to win, good conservatives and RINOs alike, are failing miserably.
People who win these major straw polls (and this is the major straw poll - the candidates were pretty much all there, trying) are not candidates who can not win.
The pundits have always used CPAC as tea leaves as to “who can win”. The CPAC winner always got credibility.
But the media, who love the bankers and the Fed, will look at the CPAC results and diminish them because they don’t like the results.
This is CPAC. Reagan spoke here over 10 times.