AdamT
10-07-2011, 04:01 PM
Funny story lol. Last night my local county Republican party had it's annual Lincoln Dinner. The Chairman, Secretary, and Vice-Chair are all RP supporters. I'm the treasurer. There were probably 60-80 people at the dinner, most not paid members of the party, but Republican-leaning for sure.
So we decided to have a presidential straw poll for the fun of it. I got to count the votes. And while I could've easily cheated to make Ron Paul win, I didn't. At the same time I saw how RP-haters can easily skew results if they happen to count these kinds of things, and no one would know any better. I counted the ballots by myself, no one watched, and no one verified the count.
After I handed the Chair the list of votes to announce, this is what happened as he read the results to the room of dinner guests:
"First place with 14 votes is Herman Cain." [cheers from some of the people]
"Second place with 10 votes, Ron Paul." [cheers from some of the people]
"Third place with 5 votes, Mitt Romney." [dead silence]
"Is anyone going to cheer?" [room busts out into mass laughter]
I thought this was so damn funny. I would've paid to seen Romney's face had he witnessed this.
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff189/adamtro/strawpoll.jpg
So we decided to have a presidential straw poll for the fun of it. I got to count the votes. And while I could've easily cheated to make Ron Paul win, I didn't. At the same time I saw how RP-haters can easily skew results if they happen to count these kinds of things, and no one would know any better. I counted the ballots by myself, no one watched, and no one verified the count.
After I handed the Chair the list of votes to announce, this is what happened as he read the results to the room of dinner guests:
"First place with 14 votes is Herman Cain." [cheers from some of the people]
"Second place with 10 votes, Ron Paul." [cheers from some of the people]
"Third place with 5 votes, Mitt Romney." [dead silence]
"Is anyone going to cheer?" [room busts out into mass laughter]
I thought this was so damn funny. I would've paid to seen Romney's face had he witnessed this.
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff189/adamtro/strawpoll.jpg