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Romney Wins CPAC Straw Poll
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ABC News' Karen Travers reports: Mitt Romney may no longer be running for president, but he still pulled out a close win in the Conservative Political Action Conference presidential straw poll, today, in Washington.
The straw poll is, of course, non-binding and largely meaningless, and the results should not be read as representative of the conservative movement writ large.
Results (1,558 votes cast):
Romney 35%
McCain 34%
Huckabee 12
Paul 12
Undecided 5
Other 1
"Gov. Romney is thankful for the support grassroots conservatives have shown towards his campaign. The governor promises to be an important voice for them and their issues, within the Republican Party, as he works to bring the party together behind the eventual nominee," Romney spokesman Kevin Madden told ABC News' John Berman.
Full results can be found HERE.
Conference attendees could vote from Thursday morning through Friday afternoon –- and 24 percent of the votes were cast before Romney dropped out on Thursday.
CPAC broke down the results of the straw poll vote before and after Romney dropped out. Romney won the early voting 44 to 27 over McCain. But in votes cast after Romney was out of the race, McCain won 37 to 32.
This year's CPAC presidential preference straw poll had a slightly different twist than last year's poll. The first question on the ballot was a simple one: Who would voters choose if the election were held today?
In addition to the generic preference question, a follow-up question asked what voters would do on Election Day if McCain or Huckabee are the GOP nominee.
The results found that, if McCain is the nominee, 68 percent said they would vote for him, 20 percent would vote for someone else, and 11 percent would not vote.
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It shows that Mitt is the true conservative not Captain McAmnesty! Too bad the liberal media is so in love with McCain, until now, now they will begin to turn on him, like McCain turned on the GOP.
Posted by: Dennis | Feb 9, 2008 6:36:01 PM
I think if you intended to be fair to ALL the candidates in this race, you would have waited until all the participants spoke at the conference before holding the straw poll. Your holding the voting prior to Mike Huckabee speaking smells of intent to manipulate voters. It has become blatantly obvious that this whole election process has been tainted by bias from the media, talk radio and groups such as yourself. What happened to the people choosing who their candidate should be? I think the establishment is afraid of Mike Huckabee, because he is beholden to nobody but GOD!
Posted by: Dawn C | Feb 9, 2008 7:44:33 PM
"I think the establishment is afraid of Mike Huckabee, because he is beholden to nobody but GOD!" Dawn, I think Mr. Huckabee was feeling pretty beholden to Mr. McCain when he was allowed to win W. VA in that anti-Romney play between the two of them.
Posted by: Tracy | Feb 9, 2008 8:57:29 PM
Good one, Tracy!
Posted by: ComeOn | Feb 9, 2008 11:12:05 PM
Romney was clearly the best canidate!!! It's too bad that those evangelical states could not see past his religion... Now, the republican party has scraps to choose from.... As a conservative, I'm still not sure what I will do...
Posted by: Will | Feb 10, 2008 12:52:38 AM
To Dennis-"Mitt" isn`t even the true "Mitt," let alone the true conservative. And, on Meet The Press this morning, the Huckster showed that "Mitt" isn`t half the capable standard bearer that Huckebeee is.
Posted by: luke | Feb 10, 2008 11:03:11 AM
Thank God Romney is out of the race. Anyone that took this talking bobblehead of a man seriously as a "real" conservative needs his/her head examined. It's amazing how people are willing to discount someone like John McCain because of a disagreement or two and throw their support behind a vacuous sock-puppet like Mitt Romney who would say anything to anyone to get elected! If Romney had won the nomination, I would've stayed home election day...or voted for Obama! If Romney were any phonier, his face would be on Monopoly money!
Posted by: Darren, Charlotte, NC | Feb 10, 2008 1:49:55 PM
The CPAC vote was rigged because it was held before all the candidates had a chance to speak and because the whole conference was predicated on the assumption that there were only two candidates.
Posted by: Ben | Feb 10, 2008 11:36:35 PM
It's shows real character for Huck to badmouth Romney after he withdrew. Romney showed no ill will. The bad feelings were left on the court so to speak. A real gentleman that Huck...
Posted by: Ben D | Feb 11, 2008 6:19:28 AM
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