Ron Paul gets 37% among 2nd choices at CPAC: Could be the REAL news?

[rp08orbust]

EDIT: I just watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9nkTxtRVRU&feature=player_embedded for myself and it appears the 37% number is Ron Paul's COMBINED 1st and 2nd choice total. So if we assume that Ron Paul got all of Gary Johnson's 2nd place votes, that's only 1% left among the rest of voters. Not so encouraging.

[robertwerden]

I want to know who the first choice was for those who listed paul as second choice.
We know the Gary Johnson people where a portion, but that still leaves 30% so does that mean some Romney people voted for Paul as a second? It has to mean that. That is huge news

[TonySutton]

From the slide they showed at CPAC the 36% consisted of 30% first choice votes + 6% second choice votes. This probably means nearly all of Gary Johnson's supporters chose Ron as their second choice.

[UtahApocalypse]

Yeah i want to see a better break down of the numbers here. This could be a bigger development then his win by far.

[erowe1]

Wow. That is great news, and really surprising. Do you have a link that verifies this?

[erowe1]

From the slide they showed at CPAC the 36% consisted of 30% first choice votes + 6% second choice votes. This probably means nearly all of Gary Johnson's supporters chose Ron as their second choice.

OK. This sounds more realistic.

[Epic]

OP has bad math. 37% is aggregate number of people who listed him 1 or 2.

[sailingaway]

It wasn't second choices, it was the combined votes on the first two ballots. It is still huge, since they do it so a nonmainstream candidate will lose the second number due to way underperforming on the second ballot-- and Ron won both.

LOL!

Sorry, you didn't need to be told that three times...

[low preference guy]

Gary Johnson won the second choice poll with 15%.

[brandon]

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