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 Romney Wins Iowa Straw PollPosted on Aug 12, 2007Mitt Romney won the Republican straw poll in Iowa on Saturday by a wide margin, but his victory was tempered by the conspicuous absence of the other big names in the campaign: John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, turned heads with a surprising second-place finish. Tommy Thompson said previously he would drop out of the race if he didn’t get second or better. He placed sixth.
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By Andre Comeau, August 14, 2007 at 1:35 pm #
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26,000 total Tickets sold at $35 each. But only 14,302 votes were tabulated. Now why would somebody buy a $35 ticket to vote for his favorite candidate and not do it? Don’t you smell a Rat ?
Every mass media is fixing their polls. Why would the Republican organisation be any different. Money runs the world. Unfortunatly money runs the media and power. When is the last time the people ran the government? The cover-up cannot last forever.
Report thisBy Louise, August 13, 2007 at 10:28 pm #
#94684 by vet240 on 8/13 at 5:32 pm
“For the Republicans who are for anybody that might win this is a sure sign the Republicans are in big trouble. They could only find 14,000 of the almost 24,000 that voted eight years ago?”
“What does that tell you?”
“It tells me that even the folks of the rural areas now know the Republicans have been and continue to lead in the wrong direction.”
Agreed, and it also tells me a lot of folks in the rural areas know the republicans have been cheats and they no longer want to be any part of it. Like anybody else, they want the feel-good feeling of knowing they back a real winner!
The outcome of this ridiculous “straw poll” should serve to drop the last straw on the camels back ...
Honest people hate cheats!
Romney Jokes About Cheating in Poll
http://freedomisforeverybody.blogspot.com/2007/08/romney-jokes-about-cheating-in-poll.html
“We will stuff the ballot box, I hope,” he said on the recording. And he joked about cheating in the Corn Poll, the bi-partisan State Fair popularity contest in which attendees are asked to “cast your kernel” by placing a kernel of corn in a jar for their favored candidate to show their support. “I was a little dismayed because I saw Barack Obama, he had a lot of corn in that Mason jar,” quipped Romney. “But I was number one - so thanks for cheating!”
And while you’re on that site read:
Romney Leadership Team Member Overseeing Straw Poll
“The Iowa GOP is facing possible suit over their use of the same Diebold machines that were just de-certified.”
And:
Voting Machine Malfunction Causes Delay
“The results of the Iowa Republican Straw poll have been delayed for more than an hour tonight as officials recount about 1,500 ballots from one ‘voting’ machine. Mary Tiffany, a spokeswoman for the Republican Party of Iowa, said officials were forced to count ballots by hand after one of the ‘voting’ machines malfunctioned while tabulating”
Oh what the heck, read it all!
Then remember, there is no end to the creative ways people can cheat.
Then ask yourself, what kind of man is proud to be a winner only by cheating?
People who have to cheat to win are not winners!
Report thisThey are Losers ... in every sense of the word!
The folks back home don’t like feeling like losers!
By vet240, August 13, 2007 at 9:32 pm #
For the Republicans who are for anybody that might win this is a sure sign the Republicans are in big trouble. They could only find 14,000 of the almost 24,000 that voted eight years ago?
What does that tell you?
It tells me that even the folks of the rural areas now know the Republicans have been and continue to lead in the wrong direction.
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, August 13, 2007 at 3:32 am #
There are two things which happened - it can only mean that MR is merely the best of the also-ran’s. The main players stayed away…....
Report thisBy jerryd, August 12, 2007 at 8:58 pm #
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There was a letter to the editor published on The Christian Science Monitor’s site that gave me a laugh.
” As an Iowan, I feel obligated to let those who may not be familiar with the Iowa straw poll and who may think that it is a legitimate test of voter preferences know that it is nothing but a dog and pony show. This Republican exercise is totally staged, bought, and paid for to trick those in the party.
Candidates bus voters in, paying the admission fee of $35 and providing them with food and drink in exchange for their votes. They cherry-pick the attendees, and there are plenty of questionable voters. It is likely that some of the participants are not even from Iowa.”
I loved the dog and pony comparison.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0813/p08s02-cole.html
Report thisBy Carson, August 12, 2007 at 8:34 pm #
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I am proud to be an American when I see the way the straw poll seemed to cut through some of the hype created by the media that was in favor of the over financed candidates.
Back about 1915 or so we had a politician named Woodrow Wilson that accepted a bribe to create the Federal Reserve. They were a group of very powerful bankers and businessmen from around the world at the time. Through the monopoly of being the source of our money and by being outside of our government, or paying any taxes, they have built up a fortune that, I believe, includes owning most of the politicians of the world.
It is going to take a determined, We the People, to restore law and order in our government before we can restore law and order in our once great nation.
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
-Woodrow Wilson
Report thisBy Outraged, August 12, 2007 at 7:45 pm #
If we’re lucky Tommy Thompson will pull out. Not that I thought he had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting elected, just the same, those familiar with his “politics” will rest easier.
Mitt spent all that money, had his “good ol’ boys” (sons) working for him and STILL only received 32% of the vote. That’s laughable Mitt! Just for the record Mitt, I believe it would have been much less expensive to just purchase “canned” cheers and send some “bucks” Diebold’s way. It’s your only hope…....or have you already covered that?
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