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Some Thoughts on the Straw Poll
By RightSideRedux Posted in 2008 — Comments (1) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Kudos to Mike Huckabee who gave an excellent speech and was able to win the local straw poll. Congrats to Mitt for winning the overall straw poll with online savvy.
Couple of thoughts here:
- Here's a quick genesis of how things happened from the Romney side of things. Over a week ago the Romney camp caught wind that over 1000 people had already voted in the straw poll. I guess Romney can count better than the other candidates (j/k) and quickly realized that this thing was going to be won online.In short: if 2500 people were attending the straw poll and 1000 people had already voted... anyone who didn't make an online showing would lose. They called up supporters and asked them to email their personal lists about the opportunity. We held the news from our blogs until Thursday night so as not to tip the other candidates (who apparently didn't put 2 and 2 together - again j/k) and the race was off.
- 600 attendees actually voted online.... so the 952 votes is misleading. I'm not saying Romney won... but the seeming on-site rout for Huckabee needs a little context.
- The big losers as Erick and Politico point out are Fred and Rudy. The former came in behind Romney and the later came in second. Second, that is, in the least acceptable candidate group.
- Talking to numerous people at the convention... the flurry of Romney endorsements didn 'tnot go unnoticed. Many people came up to me asking numerous questions about Mitt. At one point a prominent radio host asked me to come over and explain where Mitt stands on stem cell research to another fellow news maker.
- Here's a better contextual look at why Huckabee is a great guy... but won't be able to make it happen:
Hilary is inblue, then Romney and Rudy
The barely visible flat line at the bottom is Mike Huckabee
(note: I believe Huckabee is dead last in the fundraising race)
Note: Justin Hart is founder of MyManMitt.com and sits on the the Romney Faith and Values Committee
At some point, you'll run out of 1UPs. When you write a diary on the 2008 Presidential race, you will note that you work for/with/however the turfing is described the Romney campaign. This is not optional. It has been spelled out in diaries, front-pagers, comments, and, not least, private emails to you.
This diary will be fixed by 1 Eastern time, or I'll fix some things myself. Clear?
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