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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts) Sat May 23, 2015, 09:50 PM May 2015

Carson wins early GOP straw poll

For whatever the fuck this is worth.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson won the presidential straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma City on Saturday, beating out Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

Carson won 25.4 percent of the vote, while Walker took 20.5 percent and Cruz received 16.4 percent.

Other GOP presidential hopefuls and potential candidates finished far behind the top trio. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie finished a distant fourth with 5.3 percent of the vote, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry took 5 percent, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush won 4.9 percent.

Winning the straw poll could provide a boost to Carson’s long-shot candidacy.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/carson-wins-early-gop-straw-poll/ar-BBkaGcR

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Carson wins early GOP straw poll (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2015 OP

LOL. JaneyVee May 2015 #1

Suck it up, Koch Brothers, you're boy came in second! leftofcool May 2015 #2

Oh my Gawd Iliyah May 2015 #3

For comparison, the 2010 straw poll results: JHB May 2015 #4

Repigs voting for a black man in the election? xfundy May 2015 #5

Chaos. nt onehandle May 2015 #6

For once, I say "Go read the comments" gratuitous May 2015 #7

Really? AndreaCG May 2015 #9

He could win zero states shenmue May 2015 #8

IIRC, Sanctorum won the GOP primary in WA state. I could be wrong, as my mind recoiled in horror and freshwest May 2015 #10

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

1. LOL.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat May 23, 2015, 09:54 PM

May 2015

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)

2. Suck it up, Koch Brothers, you're boy came in second!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat May 23, 2015, 09:55 PM

May 2015

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

3. Oh my Gawd

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Sat May 23, 2015, 10:00 PM

May 2015

JHB

(37,161 posts)

4. For comparison, the 2010 straw poll results:

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat May 23, 2015, 10:00 PM

May 2015

former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney: 439 (24.89%)
Texas Congressman Ron Paul: 438 (24.83%)
former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin: 330 (18.71%)
former Congressman and House Speaker Newt Gingrich: 321 (18.20%)
former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee: 80 (4.54%)
Indiana Congressman Mike Pence: 58 (3.29%)
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty: 54 (3.06%)
former Pennsylvania Governor Rick Santorum: 41 (2.32%)
former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson: 3 (0.17%)
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/StrawPolls.phtml

xfundy

(5,105 posts)

5. Repigs voting for a black man in the election?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat May 23, 2015, 10:06 PM

May 2015

Not gonna happen.

The guy is apparently a brilliant surgeon but not so good on common sense.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

6. Chaos. nt

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Sat May 23, 2015, 10:21 PM

May 2015

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

7. For once, I say "Go read the comments"

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat May 23, 2015, 10:28 PM

May 2015

I usually warn people away from the comments on a story, but the ones at the MSN story are great.

AndreaCG

(2,331 posts)

9. Really?

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #7)

Sun May 24, 2015, 01:35 AM

May 2015

I read them and my head is still spinning. Lots of RW claptrap and some "liberals" who were embarrassing too. Ugh.

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

8. He could win zero states

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Sat May 23, 2015, 11:57 PM

May 2015

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

10. IIRC, Sanctorum won the GOP primary in WA state. I could be wrong, as my mind recoiled in horror and

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun May 24, 2015, 03:01 AM

May 2015

I stopped paying attention to the state GOP until that bagger got in charge of elections.

I talked to some people who had a schedule meet with Inslee and said they need to watch out for her. Sure enough, she tried to get us into that GOP data base to purge voters in 2012.

I bet she'll try again. The big increase of megachurch voters are making things too close to call now and doing their Nordquist 'starve the beast' act like they did in 2014.

Got a letter from the DNC asking to list priorities for 2016. Said POTUS is first, strengthening state parties is next and went down from there. We ha got to reverse this here.

My area has run some great young candidates but they are not funded well enough. And the GOP has the religious advantage 24/7/365 which costs them nothing.

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