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Old 08-11-2007, 10:22 PM
 
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The complete story is here:

Iowa GOP Straw Poll results - Boston.com (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/11/iowa_gop_straw_poll_results/ - broken link)

Interesting the way this turned out. McCain got only 1% of the vote and Giuliani received just 1.3%. Both them put together got less than a third as many votes as Ron Paul, and Tom Tancredo bested all three. It seems Iowa Republicans are less impressed with the status quo than the party leadership might wish.
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Old 08-11-2007, 10:27 PM
 
Location: Sacramento
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The complete story is here:

Iowa GOP Straw Poll results - Boston.com (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/11/iowa_gop_straw_poll_results/ - broken link)

Interesting the way this turned out. McCain got only 1% of the vote and Giuliani received just 1.3%. Both them put together got less than a third as many votes as Ron Paul, and Tom Tancredo bested all three. It seems Iowa Republicans are less impressed with the status quo than the party leadership might wish.
Well, I think this served as the death knell to the Tommy Thompson campaign. Otherwise, I don't know that this really provides much in the way of conclusions.
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Old 08-11-2007, 10:36 PM
 
Location: Coming soon to a town near YOU!
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The complete story is here:

Iowa GOP Straw Poll results - Boston.com (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/11/iowa_gop_straw_poll_results/ - broken link)

Interesting the way this turned out. McCain got only 1% of the vote and Giuliani received just 1.3%. Both them put together got less than a third as many votes as Ron Paul, and Tom Tancredo bested all three. It seems Iowa Republicans are less impressed with the status quo than the party leadership might wish.
The big boys decided not to participate (McCain, Guliani, etc)... this was basically a race for the 3nd place slot... I heard on the radio that Romney spent $5 million....or about $1,000 per vote. I don't think this really proves much, except that the "I don't believe in evlolution" candidates can still pull in the votes with republicans.
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Old 08-11-2007, 10:41 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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Awright! The better that Romney does in the campaign, the more chances we get to talk about the "magic spectacles" used by Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS church, to read the Book of Mormon (written in the remarkable "reformed Egyptian" script) that he found near his home in the woods of upstate New York! Pick up today your copy of the Nauvoo Expositor of 1844, the blockbuster rag (short-lived though it was) that first publicized Joseph Smith's (already a fledgling candidate for President of the United States) then-new policy of plural marriage for the Mormon church elite!

Smith was a fellow with no shortage of AMBITION!

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Old 08-12-2007, 12:54 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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Paying $35 to vote? None of them should have participated.

Do you think Romney's National Poll numbers will improve because of an Iowa straw poll?
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Old 08-12-2007, 07:38 AM
 
Location: Oak Park, IL
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According to the panel of the McLuaghlin Group the winner gets a boost. The guy kinda looks like Moe from the Simpsons. That may help a little too.
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