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Herman Cain wins Florida Republican straw poll

 
U.S. presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks to delegates during the Republican Party of Florida Presidency 5 Convention in Orlando, Florida September 24, 2011. REUTERS/Phelan Ebenhack

ORLANDO, Florida | Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:05pm EDT

(Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain won an upset victory in the nonbinding straw poll sponsored by the Republican Party of Florida on Saturday, beating out seven other candidates including front-runner Rick Perry.

 

Good, I am sick of Perry and Romney.  This guy I can vote for with out hating myself.

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Straw polls do not mean diddly squat!  The voters in these polls are registered party members who attend some limited event they can afford to be at and they are intensely lobbied by the ultimate winner.  In the Iowa straw poll, the voters actually paid $30.00 each for the high  privilege of voting.  The winner there?  The dithering theocrat, Michelle Bachman!  Thereafter, Bachmann slid back to her established status of also-ran, a position from which, I confidently predict, she will not improve.  Similarly, Cain intensely lobbied the Florida straw poll voters (whether anyone paid to vote in that poll, I don't know) and wound up winning.  As with the regrettable Bachmann, he, too , will not improve his standing on the basis of that irrelevant poll.

$175.

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/E...orida-straw-poll-win


"The takeaway from Florida, that we took away, is that number one, the citizens movement is more powerful than the establishment wants to give me credit for. So yes, they keep treating me like the Rodney Dangerfield of this primary contest," Cain told Fox News Sunday.

"The voters, the people out in the field are saying we want to send a message to Washington, D.C. The establishment is not going to make this call, the people are going to make the call and that's what you saw in the Florida straw poll yesterday," he said.

Most analysts see Saturday’s unscientific Florida poll of 2,657 delegates (party activists who’d paid $175 to participate) as one blip on a long trail of debates and straw polls – and one that mainly was a rebuke of Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Perry, whose three debate performances seem to have gotten progressively worse and some of whose positions have drawn sharp critical response from party conservatives, managed to win just 15 percent of the straw poll tally compared to 37 percent for Cain. The loss was all the more troubling for the Perry camp since the Texas governor and late entry to the race had lobbied hard for delegate votes.

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$175.

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/E...orida-straw-poll-win


"The takeaway from Florida, that we took away, is that number one, the citizens movement is more powerful than the establishment wants to give me credit for. So yes, they keep treating me like the Rodney Dangerfield of this primary contest," Cain told Fox News Sunday.

"The voters, the people out in the field are saying we want to send a message to Washington, D.C. The establishment is not going to make this call, the people are going to make the call and that's what you saw in the Florida straw poll yesterday," he said.

Most analysts see Saturday’s unscientific Florida poll of 2,657 delegates (party activists who’d paid $175 to participate) as one blip on a long trail of debates and straw polls – and one that mainly was a rebuke of Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Perry, whose three debate performances seem to have gotten progressively worse and some of whose positions have drawn sharp critical response from party conservatives, managed to win just 15 percent of the straw poll tally compared to 37 percent for Cain. The loss was all the more troubling for the Perry camp since the Texas governor and late entry to the race had lobbied hard for delegate votes.

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Thanks for the info on the cost of a ticket to vote in the Florida straw poll--$175.00!

 

Now we know that the cohort of pseudo-voters in this irrelevant poll consisted of die-hard GOP activists who were willing to part with that much good money in order to vote for the candidate that spent far more time lobbying them than any other--hardly a scientific poll. Before the poll, the dingbat Governor of Florida, Rick Scott, former health insurance mogul and miscreant, had said that the winner of the Florida GOP straw poll would be the ultimate GOP primary winner.  Amazingly, he still holds to that position.  Go figure.

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