Jill Stanek has written a column today about a meeting that took place last weekend after the Straw Poll results were announced: Saturday I attended a private meeting of conservative leaders during the Family Research Council Washington Briefing, a Salt Lake City II if you will, to discuss dilemmas we face with the 2008 presidential candidates. Instructions were given not to speak to the media, and since I am the media, I took that to meanread more…
Citizen Link, part of Focus on the Family Action organization, has two short videos reporting on the Washington Briefing event this weekend. One thing I found interesting is in the reporting of the Straw Poll results, their report lists only the onsite vote totals and names Mike Huckabee as the clear winner. The two videos total about 6.5 minutes. Please go HERE to watch these reports. Kerry
The Brody File David Brody, CBN News Senior National Correspondent Romney Wins Value Voter Straw Poll…Wait. Is Huckabee the Winner? October 20, 2007 I’m not sure how to explain this. Let’s start with this. Technically, Mitt Romney won the big Value Voters Straw poll but it’s not that simple. The vote was open to people online and in that sense, Romney won with 1595 votes compared to Mike Huckabee’s 1565 votes. It was just aread more…
From Red State: Huckabee Crushes All Comers. <!––> The FRC Action Straw Poll confirms that Mike Huckabee is the big winner here today. In the online poll that the Romney campaign pushed hard to win, he only managed to get thirty more votes than Mike Huckabee — 1595 to 1565 or 27.62% to 27.10%. But, of the crowd *at* the Washington Briefing, Huckabee dominated everyone else. Huckbee got 488 votes for an absolute majority out ofread more…
Here are the numbers from the FRC (Family Research Council) The first chart is total votes (those at the Washington Briefing and those voting online). The second chart is only those attending the WB in person. Mitt Romney 1595 27.62% Mike Huckabee 1565 27.15% Ron Paul 865 14.98% Fred Thompson 564 9.77% Undecided 329 5.70% Sam Brownback 297 5.14% Duncan Hunter 140 2.42% Tom Tancredo 133 2.30% Rudy Giuliani 107 1.85% John McCain 81 1.40% Notread more…
