[PaulCruz2016]

Rand Paul: 31%
Ted Cruz: 11%
All the other losers (Christie, Bush): less than 10%

[tirednvirginia]

The person who buses the most people in for the straw poll wins at CPAC. It requires a heavy investment of not only paying for the buses but also the registrations. Usually they all show up on the bus just for the voting only.

[unread]

Was that a poll of the general public or was that for everybody...????

[ontap]

Here’s a list of past CPAC straw poll winners!!! Only two made it to be elected!!!

1976 Ronald Reagan[45][46]
1980 Ronald Reagan
1984 Ronald Reagan
1986 Jack Kemp[47][48]
1987 Jack Kemp[49]
1993 Jack Kemp[50]
1995 Phil Gramm[51]
1998 Steve Forbes[52]
1999 Gary Bauer[53]
2000 George W. Bush[54]
2005 Rudy Giuliani[55]
2006 George Allen[56]
2007 Mitt Romney[56]
2008 Mitt Romney[56]
2009 Mitt Romney[56][57]
2010 Ron Paul[56][58]
2011 Ron Paul[59]
2012 Mitt Romney[60]
2013 Rand Paul[61]
2014 Rand Paul[62]

[Washi]

While Rand is in my top 3 or 4 candidates, I think he unfairly benefited from the PaulBot contingent that always attends CPAC.

He is absolutely preferable to any one the rats run in 2016, but I think Cruz is my candidate.

I just recently made up my mind on this. I had been worried that Cruz was just talking a good game recently, then I saw information regarding writings he had done in college. He sounds like a real deal conservative.

[VRWC For Truth]

CPAC was overflowing with Shamnesty supporters. No thanks. Too much Potomac water.

[Din Maker]

Indeed, his (Rand Paul's) father, then-Rep. Ron Paul, won the straw poll twice on a similar libertarian-minded message, though he struggled to translate that support into votes when it came to primaries and caucuses.

GOOD!!! CPAC can choose the little punk all they want, but, thank God he still has to win the votes of the American people in the Primaries; which he WILL NOT do. It would be easier for me to forgive Rand Paul for raping a nun easier than I can forgive him for endorsing, and campaigning for, Mitch "The Bitch" McConnell. I will never forgive him for that, and I will never vote for the little political whore. NEVER!!

[Georgia Girl 2]

How did Mitt come out in the 2012 CPAC straw poll? :-)

[Amagi]

Did Rand really say ObamaCare is not able to be repealed?

[Dead Corpse]

Paul/Palin/Cruz/West/Nugent.

Pick two and let’s roll.

[bert]

——Neurosurgeon Ben Carson was third with 9 percent——

Ben might pull ahead down the stretch.......

He is a conservative that appeals to the campaign money providers that must re build the economy.

He wields a razor sharp stiletto that he inserts so silky smooth the victim doesn’t know he has been slain.

[Aqua Buddhist]

That link didn't work -- I searched a bit and found the correct one here.

[Born to Conserve]

31%

That means that the other 69% were “split” between Rinos. When then get their liberal acts together, conservatives will once again be marginalized.

[ek_hornbeck]

I prefer Cruz to Paul (ever since Paul came out in favor of amnesty for illegals), but as far as I’m concerned, I’ll be happy as long as Jeb Bush isn’t the 2016 GOP nominee. Christie will be a non-factor thanks to his recent scandals.

[Theodore R.]

I’m sorry, but Rand doesn’t do much more for me than his daddy does.