Romney wins, Perry strong write-in at Ohio GOP straw poll

Politico ^ | July 22, 2011 | Maggie Haberman

[Cincinatus' Wife]

An Ohio Republican Party official sent over results from the party's presidential straw poll in a proving-ground swing state, which showed Mitt Romney the clear winner.

Romney, who made the Ames Straw Poll his Holy Grail in 2007 but is bypassing Ames, Florida's Presidency V and all other such contests this cycle, won handily with 25 percent.

Tim Pawlenty, who is fighting his own war for Ames, scored second place, with 16 percent.

But Pawlenty was bunched with the third- and fourth-place finishers, Michele Bachmann (15 percent) candidate Rick Perry (14 percent).

Perry is especially noteworthy, since he has yet to pull the trigger on a campaign, and was a write-in on the ballot, according to party officials.

Ron Paul was fifth, with 9 percent, Herman Cain and Rick Santorum tied at 5 percent, Newt Gingrich got 3 percent and Jon Huntsman, of the named candidates, finished last, at 2 percent.

All other non-Perry write-ins got a total of 6 percent of the 264 ballots cast.

[Diogenesis]

NO more RINOs. Anywhere in the Galaxy.

[Diogenesis]

“Like last time, we RINOs must save Obama, our Emperor”.

[org.whodat]

264. Voters total, Yawn,

[Jim Noble]

All the straw polling is meaningless crap.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

All the straw polling is meaningless crap.

Unless it supports your candidate. LOL!

As this article mentions, what is of note (it also goes into the size and party of those polled in the article that had to be excerpted) is that an unannounced candidate had such a high write-in number.

THAT is the story.

[Dr. Sivana]

The event was tethered to the state party's annual dinner, and such straw polls usually tend to be dominated by party insiders as opposed to an event like Ames, which is more widely attended and reflective of a campaign's organizational abilities.

Actually, based on the sponsor of the debate, I'd be a little concerned if Sarah did real well, as if the Establishment knew something I didn't.

The story does NOT say where the event was held. Ohio is a sizable state with distinct regions, and the Columbus and Cleveland areas are FAR different from Cincinnati.

[paratrooper82]

The elitist are sure pushing RINO Romney; they too can read the polls as well and understand that obumbum will not be reelected and so they want the most liberal socialist RINO Republican to win the next Presidential election to carry-on the socialist dream (nightmare).

[cripplecreek]

The hispanic front group calls him the number 1 friend of hispanics.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2752501/posts

[Diogenesis]

More conservatives VOTED in the HARRY POLL:

Perry polled BELOW Allahpundit and Krauthammer.

Click here for HARRY info

[Diogenesis]

[normy]

Neither Palin nor Perry were included in the poll. Perry won 14% as a write in. That's the story. I would be interested to see if that 6% of the “rest of the write ins” was all Palin though.

[Diogenesis]

Those are the 30 people Rove and the RINO Perry
commissioned to vote for the RINO Trojan Horse.

ROTFLOL.

[normy]

Cuckoo..Cuckooo..Cuckooo!

[FreedBird]

It seems Perry would make a better President than Romney.
Romney has some money to counter Obama’s Big Propaganda Machine which will badmouth any Republican until eternity.
Maybe Romney should pick pick Perry for V.P.

[sport]

If Rommy is on the ticket, I will not vote for him.

[FreedBird]

Hopefully the GOP will win back the Senate and President next year and cut spending. It is sad to think of the consequences if Obama wins and Reid is still leading the Senate. Rommey does not have enough fire in his belly.

[mac_truck]

The story does NOT say where the event was held.

It was the annual dinner for the state GOP, so one would expect folks from all over the state to atttend regardless of where it was held.

[Vigilanteman]

Straw is what cattle sh*t in.

[Psalm 144]

That is the beyond plastic in its inauthenticity.

A hologram surrounded by mannikins.

[Psalm 144]

Pee Wee Herman could win against Obama..

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Agreed. But Obama v. Romney will see Obama re-elected.