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Ron Paul wins another straw poll
Published: 11 October, 2011, 02:28
US Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul of Texas addresses the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit in Washington on October 8, 2011 (AFP Photo / Nicholas Kamm)
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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul came in on top again at a straw poll over the weekend, but as usual the congressman from Texas is creating a bit of commotion with his continuing success.
Rep. Paul placed first during the Values Voter Summit’s straw poll in Washington this weekend, but Family Research Council President Tony Perkins quickly dismissed the results of his own survey, instead insisting that pizzaman Herman Cain was the real winner.
“I think there’s something to be said about his results in the straw poll,” Perkins said of Cain to CNN on Monday.
Perkins was quick to denounce Paul’s success. To CNN’s American Morning on Monday today, Perkins said, “I don’t think Ron Paul is truly reflective of where values voters stand.”
Though Perkins has no problem voicing his own favorite, the voters in Washington opted for Paul as the winner, which was seen in the real results. Of the 1,983 ballots case, Paul took 732, or 37 percent of the total.
Cain came in second with 23 percent of the votes, followed by former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.
Previously Paul had won straw polls in California and South Carolina, as well as a straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference much earlier in 2011. His continuing success as he garners supporters has created just as much controversy, however. Following his performance at a recent televised GOP debate, online voters at the website for Fox News suggested that Paul was the winner of the event. Within hours, however, Fox struck the results off the website.
Paul had previously acknowledged his own success, telling the debate crowd that he was hesitant to discuss his choice for a running mate until he placed consistently in the top two. He was quick to remind the audience, however, that he has been polling strong seemingly everywhere since he announced his candidacy.
One place voters have been continuing to show opposition for sure is with the campaign for Rep. Michele Bachmann, which seems to be running out of steam. Despite starting off strong, the representative from Minnesota came in fifth at the Values Voter Summit contest.
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Perkins thinks that he can pick the winner of this poll all by him self, Ron Paul got the most votes 37%, and Mr rich Pizza Cain got 23%. So tell us all Mr Perkins how did you come up with Cain as a winner...?
same with all US media, nothing about Dr Ron Paul win, they are all in on it, who do they think they are KINGS MAKERS.........!
Jill (unregistered) wrote in#4
Why does the Russians like Ron Paul so much? As an American that makes me very, very concerned about Ron Paul. That and the fact that he doesn't care that Iran gets the bomb (something I think Russia should be concerned about too).
Maybe because he is driven by logic and common sense, not ideology or money? It is much more productive to work with somebody who makes sense, rather then with an ideological baboon.
As usual, Faux Snooze radio this morning was breathlessly comparing the second and third runners-up candidates and not a peep about who really is in first place. They are hoping that if they don't mention his name and manage to keep him off the ballot again, maybe he will and his followers will just go away. All it does, though, is make the blogosphere more vocal about how elections in USA are crooked.