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Iowa Straw Poll Results

by BooMan
Sun Aug 12th, 2007 at 01:41:32 AM EST

I don't know if anything is as boring as the Iowa Republican straw poll. It is a pathetic event where people with no prayer of being commander in chief pay busloads of Iowan wingnuts to vote for them in a meaningless, non-binding wankfest of a poll. Here are the results:

Candidate Votes Pct.
1. Mitt Romney 4,516 31.6%
2. Mike Huckabee 2,587 18.1%
3. Sam Brownback 2,192 15.3%
4. Tom Tancredo 1,960 13.7%
5. Ron Paul 1,305 9.1%
6. Tommy Thompson 1,039 7.3%
7. Fred Thompson 203 1.4%
8. Rudy Giuliani* 183 1.3%
9. Duncan Hunter 174 1.2%
10. John McCain* 101 0.7%
11. John Cox 41 0.3%
*Did not attend

No one should care about these results, but they will have some consequences. Fmr. Gov. Tommy Thompson promised to drop out if he didn't finish in at least second place. I guess we can say goodbye to his pointless campaign. The results also provide further evidence that John McCain is no more likely to win this nomination than Joe Lieberman was to win the Democratic nomination in 2004. I guess popularity on the Imus in the Morning show doesn't translate into popularity among grassroots activists.

I don't think the results provide much comfort for Duncan 'Two Kinds of Fruit' Hunter, and Sam Brownback lost out to Mike Huckabee in the 'thou art more Christian than thou' contest.

Overall, I'd say 'who cares' about this stupid event, but the whole asinine spectacle gives me a case of the giggles.

Iowa Straw Poll Results | 10 comments (10 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Iowa Straw Poll Results (none / 0)

I'm appalled that Tancredo got double-digits.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail.com) on Sun Aug 12th, 2007 at 01:53:06 AM EST

Re: Iowa Straw Poll Results (none / 0)

Mr. Immigration's results don't surprise me. Of course, I'm appalled about 99% of the time these days.

by BooMan on Sun Aug 12th, 2007 at 02:01:03 AM EST
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I'm bummed that Ron Paul is still considered (none / 0)

a 'libertarian' worth getting traction.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Sun Aug 12th, 2007 at 02:05:04 AM EST
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Re: Iowa Straw Poll Results (none / 0)

The better Tancredo does the better I like it.
Same goes for Brownback and Huckleberry.

"That's funny. That plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops"

by Bourgeois Liberal (Jrclio@aol.com) on Sun Aug 12th, 2007 at 08:47:24 AM EST
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Re: Iowa Straw Poll Results (none / 0)

Well, I came at it from a non-political standpoint when I wrote the above comment. Tancredo's standing is like having a pulse on the anti-immigrant sentiment around different parts of the country since he is a one-trick pony.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail.com) on Sun Aug 12th, 2007 at 06:07:22 PM EST
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Re: Iowa Straw Poll Results (none / 0)

What's really funny is that Romney spent about $2 Million preparing for and putting on a spectacular barbecue today... to only get 31.6% of a non-scientific poll. Now that's pathetic.

by RandyH on Sun Aug 12th, 2007 at 02:27:08 AM EST

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Isn't this interesting. They used electronic voting machines and had some troubles with them. Imagine that.

The mishap was especially embarrassing as it followed a federal lawsuit Friday by supporters of Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.), who argued that the Diebold Election Systems machines were prone to problems. A federal judge denied the request for an injunction blocking the voting, and an appeals court upheld that ruling Saturday.

An interesting article about the event...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/11/AR2007081101058.html?nav=rss_print/a section

by RandyH on Sun Aug 12th, 2007 at 02:54:33 AM EST

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Thank god !!! Randy got it. The media didn't! The big and I mean REALLY BIG STORY from Iowa straw vote is:(a little drum roll if you please!)-- The vote needed a "PARTIAL RECOUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Diebold failed once again!!!!!!!!!!!
Less than 40,000 votes and they couldn't get it right!
Boy is this country in trouble!!!!!!
Please tell me why anyone should bother voting? The whole stinking thing is rigged!

by billjpa (billjpa@aol.com) on Sun Aug 12th, 2007 at 08:48:58 AM EST

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They got 14K, and expected 30K, voters.

That means that 16K voters stayed home.

That's the story, folks. The Repukeliscum faithful are totally not jazzed by this field of fascist toads being proferred for our selection. If this carries to 2008, the debacle will be more one-sided than for McCarthy.

by dataguy on Sun Aug 12th, 2007 at 08:56:01 AM EST

buh bye tt (none / 0)

it's official...'The 65-year-old former secretary of Health and Human Services said he was officially dropping out of the race. "I respect the decision of the voters," he said.'

via lat

and then there were eight...j."pander bear" mccain can't last much longer, so it'll be seven shortly....

lTMF'sA

lTMF'sA...the revolution will not be televised...Peace

by dada on Sun Aug 12th, 2007 at 11:00:16 PM EST

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