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Palin Wins Kansas Presidential Straw Poll
Kansas City Star ^ | June 28, 2009 | Steve Kraske

Posted on 06/28/2009 1:45:08 PM PDT by curth

President -- 2012

Sarah Palin: 76

Mike Huckabee: 54

Mitt Romney: 52

Bobby Jindal: 19

Ron Paul: 9

In a straw poll at the Olathe Republican Party's annual Picnic and Straw Poll Saturday at the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop, Todd Tiahrt grabbed a big win in a straw poll faceoff.

Tiahrt and Moran, both members of Congress, are squaring off in the GOP primary next year for the U.S. Senate.

Saturday's results:

Tiahrt: 165 votes.

Moran: 46.

The 3rd District, which encompasses the site of the poll, is a major battleground in the primary race given that Moran hails from Hays and Tiahrt from Wichita.

Organizers also staged a 3rd District Congress straw poll for the right, presumably, to take on Democratic incumbent Dennis Moore next year.

Those results:

Patricia Lightner: 74.

Macie Houston: 33

Daniel Gilyeat: 30

Darla Jaye: (write-in): 24.

For governor:

Sam Brownback: 197

Other: 12.

Secretary of State:

Kris Kobach: 192

JR Claeys: 22

(Excerpt) Read more at primebuzz.kcstar.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; 2012gopprimary; 2012strawpolls; ks2009; palin; president; strawpoll
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Woman looks better in a T-shirt and baggy pants than the First Lady of Fashion looks in anything!


21 posted on 06/28/2009 2:02:23 PM PDT by calex59
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To: ejonesie22; Diogenesis; All
Have you seen the Mittbot posts the past few weeks alone?

Yep, just take a look at THIS thread, for instance...

For Republicans, a Narrowing List of Presidential Prospects

OR this one...

Sarah Palin At High Noon

22 posted on 06/28/2009 2:02:54 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: WashStateGirl
she’s got my vote if she runs

I'd vote for her...again.

23 posted on 06/28/2009 2:08:27 PM PDT by twhitak
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To: ejonesie22

And he’s pretty politically astute!


24 posted on 06/28/2009 2:08:28 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker
Just like Sowell, Michael Reagan, Rush and many others who see Palin as a weee bit more than a idiot light weight.

Of course I am sure those here on free republic who see to take issue with her are only offering agenda free constructive criticism.

25 posted on 06/28/2009 2:12:39 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: ejonesie22

You can also throw in Victor Davis Hanson.


26 posted on 06/28/2009 2:14:23 PM PDT by Al B.
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To: ejonesie22

I know that some of the most diehard Mittens (that was their term to describe themselves) on fr were some of palin’s biggest supporters once she was picked for vp.


27 posted on 06/28/2009 2:14:35 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

28 posted on 06/28/2009 2:16:33 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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To: Al B.
Oh, that was just a short “for instance” list...

Those without an established RINO etc. agenda or candidate have little issue with Palin.

29 posted on 06/28/2009 2:18:48 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: mnehring
That is supposed to be how the game is played. I'd much rather have that scenario than the one we just finished wherein the MSM picked our candidate.

Let 'em have at it. It will make our final candidate that much stronger. If it's Palin, I'm good. She's going to have a real thick hide by then and she'll be able to rip the azz out of The One

She was in his head real big during the last campaign and if she's the Republican pick, she already knows how to flip 0's switches.

It'll be fun to watch.

30 posted on 06/28/2009 2:19:52 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: curth
I have ONE vote and there's only ONE Sarah.

She gets my vote for the 2nd time.

31 posted on 06/28/2009 2:20:11 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: ari-freedom

Well either they have missed a meeting or have been very quite. The vast majority of Anti Palin rhetoric is coming from those with a posting history straight back to Romney, at least among those who are being subtle about it. A few are rather straight forward.


32 posted on 06/28/2009 2:21:15 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: calex59
Yeah, but I can't help but notice how the poor things arms look so, so, so feminine I guess! No Ball-Buster Biceps for Palin!

Pity.

33 posted on 06/28/2009 2:24:53 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: curth

Palin 2012!


34 posted on 06/28/2009 2:25:04 PM PDT by toddausauras
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To: ejonesie22
I know, I'm just a big fan of Hanson. :)

A guy that can tell a crowd in a speech at the Hoover Institution, "I've found more wisdom on 100 acres south of Fresno than on the quad over there at Stanford" is my kind of intellectual...LOL.

35 posted on 06/28/2009 2:26:05 PM PDT by Al B.
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To: curth

Mark Sanford use to be included in these polls......is she now drawing the lion’s share of former Sanford supporters? It’s notable that whoever wins SC usually goes on to win the GOP nomination.


36 posted on 06/28/2009 2:31:13 PM PDT by Obushma (Obama=Bush 3rd Term!)
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To: curth
Behold and tremble, Democrat and RINO scum.

Your destruction is at hand.

And she's *hot*.


A verbis ad verbera

37 posted on 06/28/2009 2:31:30 PM PDT by Costumed Vigilante (Congress: When a handful of evil morons just isn't enough)
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To: Al B.
He is just being honest.

I learned much more outside of college than I ever did in the classroom.

Of course that would brand me an anti intellectual to many of our elite Country clubbers here who do such things, but on the contrary it is quite the opposite. I appreciate my time at university, for two main reasons.

First I did learn critical thinking skills and concepts which were invaluable to acquiring knowledge in the outside world, and secondly, I learned to even recognize the most subtle BS when I saw it, mainly due to over exposure while in school...

38 posted on 06/28/2009 2:35:31 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: curth

39 posted on 06/28/2009 2:36:20 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: calex59

All the left seriously needs is one or more “9/11’s” to really happen within the U.S. just prior to the November ‘10 election and/or prior to the November ‘12 election and then use such situation(s) as reasons to postpone having any elections in November ‘10 and/or November ‘12! I really hope that doesn’t happen, but leftists are already screwing up the entire U.S. in too many ways to count, including, but not limited to, the ongoing weakening of U.S. national security!


40 posted on 06/28/2009 2:37:15 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
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