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buffalokid777
07-06-2007, 08:04 PM
Via Demidog comes word from Georgia that Ron Paul placed SECOND (behind Fred Thompson) in a straw poll held yesterday in Cobb County, Georgia.

Of course straw polls don't translate directly into real votes, but here's the breakdown of the votes of about 250 voters:

Fred Thompson: 30 percent;

Ron Paul: 17 percent

Mitt Romney: 15 percent

Mike Huckabee: 13 percent

Newt Gingrich: 12 percent

Rudy Giuliani: 10 percent

John McCain, Tom Tancredo, Jim Gilmore: 1 percent

http://redstateeclectic.typepad.com/redstate_commentary/2007/07/ron-paul-moving.html

nayjevin
07-06-2007, 08:06 PM
story:


A Fourth of July straw poll for Republicans

Thursday, July 5, 2007, 07:41 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Year after year, the Fourth of July gathering by the Cobb County GOP is one of the largest in the state. On Thursday, 247 cast votes in a presidential straw poll.

To no one’s surprise, Fred Thompson — who has a fund-raiser in Atlanta on Friday — was the leader. But the fact that Ron Paul and Mitt Romney finished second and third may be significant. Possibly. It was just a straw poll.

Jason Shepherd, the Cobb coordinator of the Georgia Draft Fred Thompson Committee, sent us the break-down:

Akherousia
07-06-2007, 08:06 PM
It's hard to believe any poll in which McCain only got 1% and Giuliani came in 6th...

Jimmy
07-06-2007, 08:06 PM
Well I'm in Georgia and he gets my vote:D ...Good news. Just cannot see why anyone would vote for FT:eek:

FSP-Rebel
07-06-2007, 08:10 PM
It's hard to believe any poll in which McCain only got 1% and Giuliani came in 6th...
Keep in mind that Rudy and McCrazy are big in DC, LA, NYC, and Chi-town(the metro candidates), but in the heartland things are a little different apparently.

buffalokid777
07-06-2007, 08:15 PM
Original Posting was in the Atlanta Journal Constitution...July 5th

here's their link

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entries/2007/07/05/a_fourth_of_july_straw_poll_fo.html

BLS
07-06-2007, 08:19 PM
People...c'mon...there was 247 votes.

10% of the people that showed up are probably Ron Paul voters.

Means very little...but at least he didn't come in last.

DjLoTi
07-06-2007, 08:21 PM
It's hard to believe any poll in which McCain only got 1% and Giuliani came in 6th...

I also find it hard to believe any poll where Ron comes in at 0-1% ... but they happen all the time.

ThePieSwindler
07-06-2007, 08:21 PM
People...c'mon...there was 247 votes.

10% of the people that showed up are probably Ron Paul voters.

Means very little...but at least he didn't come in last.

Well most of the scientific polls are only twice that many, 500-600. If those mean alot, this means about half as much...

csen
07-06-2007, 08:29 PM
I am curious to know how the "online poll spam effect" might translate to straw polls. ie, because our base is so much more passionate than everyone else's, we can dominate online polling. In telephone polls (where a random sample of people is selected) we do worse, due to lack of name recognition. I imagine straw polls will fall somewhere in between.