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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

EXCLUSIVE: Straw Poll Results

Results of Republican 2007 Western Montana Republican Fair Booth Presidential Straw Poll (undervotes, overvotes and hanging chads eliminated)

Fred Thompson - 29%
Rudy Giuliani - 26%
John McCain - 15%
Mitt Romney - 15%
Newt Gingrich - 7%
Sam Brownback - 4%
Ron Paul - 4%

(85 valid votes cast)

4 comments:

Mike LaRoche said...

Heh. Looks like Ron Paul's Flying Monkeys forgot to stuff your ballot box like they're always doing with the Pajamas Media straw poll.

Go Fred!

carol said...

Yes he's looking rather marginal isn't he.

Anonymous said...

go fred!!!!!

Brian said...

Is there any official press release from the organisers?

Here's my tally:

Compilation of 16 Republican Straw Polls since June 1, 2007.
Results for Ron Paul:

FIRST (5)
New Hampshire Taxpayers, July 7 ~ 1st 61.9% (182/294)
North Carolina, Gaston GOP, August 13, ~ 1st 36.6% (15/41)
New Hampshire, Strafford Co., NH, August 18 ~ 1st 72.7% (208/286)
West Alabama, August 18 ~ 1st 81.2% (216/266)
Washington State, August 21 ~ 1st 28.1% (40/160)

SECOND (4)
Utah GOP, June 12, 2nd 5.4% (70/1295)
LibertyPapers.org conference, June 16 ~ 2nd 16.7% (NA)
Georgia, Cobb Co. GOP, July 4 ~ 2nd 17% (42/247)
South Carolina, Georgetown Co., July 28 ~ 2nd 18% (40/223)

THIRD (4)
National Federation of Republican Assemblies, August 4, St. Louis, MO ~ 3rd 14% (NA)
Illinois State Fair, Springfield, August 16 ~ 3rd 18.87% (174/922)
Minnesota House Republican Caucus, August 22 ~ 3rd 16% (NA)
Indiana, Tippecanoe Co., August 18 ~ tied 3rd 11.7% (21/180)

FOURTH (1)
California Republican Assembly, July 1 ~ 4th 12% (NA)


FIFTH (1)
Iowa, Ames, August 11 ~ 5th 9.12% (1,305/14,302)

SIXTH (1)
Young Republican National Federation, Ft Lauderdale FL, July 8th ~ 6th 4.5% (11/247)

Sources:
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=47579
http://ok4ronpaul.ashlux.com/wiki/index.php?title=2008_Presidential_GOP_straw_poll_results
http://isilion.blogsome.com/2007/08/19/85/