Romney Wins Conservatives’ Straw PollFebruary 9th, 2008 | 16 Comments | Posted in CPAC, Conservatism, Conservative, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, conservatives
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IMHO, Mitt Romney has just won the election amongst conservatives by winning the CPAC Straw Poll two years running! I don’t know how the election will play out amongst the rest of the country’s electorate, but among the “base”, Gov. Romney is the prohibitive front runner as the choice of conservative Republicans. If 2008 turns out not to be our year, we have just gotten off to a very fast start for 2012!
~~John Cronin~~
Saturday, Feb., 9, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP)
Talk about cold comfort.
Mitt Romney, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race on Thursday, won a straw poll of conservative activists on Saturday, edging out likely nominee John McCain.
Ballots for the straw poll conducted at the Conservatives Political Action Conference were collected Thursday morning through Friday afternoon. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, quit the race in a midday speech to the conference on Thursday.
In the straw poll vote, Romney got 35 percent and McCain 34 percent. Mike Huckabee and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas tied with 12 percent.
Romney won the straw poll at the conference last year.
On another question, two-thirds said they would vote for McCain if he’s the eventual nominee, two in 10 said they would vote for someone else and about one in 10 said they would not vote.
UPDATE by Jeff Fuller: Just to add in an interesting tidbit . . . most of the first day (of Four) of this CPAC straw poll voting occurred before Mitt dropped out–he was leading McCain 44%-27%. That would have been more representative of where conservatives were heading in droves . . . TO MITT!
