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.
I’m appalled that Tancredo got double-digits.
Mr. Immigration’s results don’t surprise me. Of course, I’m appalled about 99% of the time these days.
a ‘libertarian’ worth getting traction.
The better Tancredo does the better I like it.
Same goes for Brownback and Huckleberry.
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.
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.
Isn’t this interesting. They used electronic voting machines and had some troubles with them. Imagine that.
An interesting article about the event…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/11/AR2007081101058.html?nav=rss_print/a
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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!
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.
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….
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