The online poll should be disregarded.
What about the attendee’s, how was their vote?
BTW, I don’t know of any other vote in history where 5% was called “respectable”
GIngrich got 15%, not 5%. The article apparently didn’t say “respectable”, that was a title originally given to this post, which has been changed.
The attendees vote is given in the blog post. The national post was closer. Romney 27%, Santorum 25%, Gingrich 20%.
So Gingrich did better in the national “online” poll than he did in the CPAC site straw poll.
Both should be taken with a great deal of question. To the veracity of a true indication of the attendees, I remember Fabrizio telling about the results and I remember of the total of 10,000 attending was way more than those who actually voted 3408.
I find it really hard to believe that many “activists” would make that journey and personal expense to not vote. Especially if this is such a rock ribbed conservative group.
I remember what was it, last years, where the Paulturds ganged up at this event and gave him the straw poll win.