The 2008 Combined Party Presidential Straw Poll

[Taco John]

Here's the first combined Straw vote of the year. We should try to remember to do this monthly and track the opinions of our community.

[Direckshun]

Obama.

[acesn8s]

Obama.Sucks

[jAZ]

Sucks
... the wind out of all other candidates' campaigns!

[/pwned by pbama-bot!]

[Ugly Duck]

Edwards. Polls best against the slopeheads.

Wouldn't mind Hillary because Bill would be the real president, not her.

Wouldn't mind Obama.

[Archie Bunker]

I'm firmly on the Obama bandwagon.

[SoCalBronco]

McCain

[ClevelandBronco]

Once again, Dr. Paul in the primaries, but I don't expect to have the option of voting for him in the general election.

[Ugly Duck]

Once again, Dr. Paul in the primaries, but I don't expect to have the option of voting for him in the general election.

He's the leading Republican in this straw poll! Way to go, doods!

[ClevelandBronco]

He's the leading Republican in this straw poll! Way to go, doods!

In your ear, doods.

[a1na2]

RE_POST!

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO SEE THIS CRAP?

AT LEAST WAIT UNTIL THEY THIN DOWN THE LIST, AS IT STANDS WE HAVE ZERO KEEPERS IN THE RACE.

[patteeu]

If you have nothing to add, a1na2, why did you bother to add it (in size=7 font no less)?

I picked Mitt Romney. The fact that so many around here hate him has made him grow on me all the more.

[jAZ]

If you have nothing to add, a1na2, why did you bother to add it?

I picked Mitt Romney. The fact that so many around here hate him has made him grow on me all the more.
A little love for Your Man Mitt?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/062856.php

01.06.08 -- 7:34PM // link

Hope for My Man Mitt?

Before tonight's debate I wanted to briefly flag what the latest polls out of New Hampshire are saying on the Republican side. It's definitely not looking good for the Mittster. But the polls are a lot less clear cut about the direction we're going in than on the Republican side. Two of the five polls released today actually have Romney ahead, though by inconsequential margins. And the just released CNN/WMUR/UNH poll, which has McCain up by 6 points, actually has both Romney and McCain dropping a point since yesterday.

There's some evidence that Obama is pulling independent voters out of the Republican column (they can vote in either primary) and thus holding down McCain's potential post-Iowa bounce.

--Josh Marshall

In case you need some rexcjake-like spin handy...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/062860.php

01.06.08 -- 7:55PM // link

Mitt Special Pleading Primer

Should Mitt Romney lose on Tuesday he's going to need some argument why his strategy for becoming nominee is not swirling down the toilet of oblivion. So I've been trying to work on some excuses for Mitt. And I think I've got his best angle.

If you look at the just out USAToday/Gallup, while McCain is up by 4 points, he's actually only tied with Mitt among registered Republicans. Zogby says Mitt's actually leading among Republicans by a substantial margin. And the Suffolk poll shows the same thing.

If memory serves, after McCain defeated Bush in New Hampshire in 2000, this was precisely the argument he made -- that the Republican nomination should be decided by Republicans. So there may be spin hope for Mitt yet!

Mittmentum!!!

--Josh Marshall

[ChiefsGirl]

I have nothing to add!


When has that stopped you in the past?

[dirk digler]

The fact that so many around here hate him has made him grow on me all the more.

LMAO

[StcChief]

McCain

[patteeu]

A little love for Your Man Mitt?

Josh Marshall finally said something worth saying. ;)

[Cochise]

Once again, Dr. Paul in the primaries, but I don't expect to have the option of voting for him in the general election.

I guess you haven't seen the latest fund raising numbers /paulbot

[banyon]

If you have nothing to add, a1na2, why did you bother to add it (in size=7 font no less)?

I picked Mitt Romney. The fact that so many around here hate him has made him grow on me all the more.

He was trying to shout "RE_POST", but a mod added a filter that turns it into "I have nothing to add".

[patteeu]

He was trying to shout "RE_POST", but a mod added a filter that turns it into "I have nothing to add".

Oh, thanks. Now that you mention it, I vaguely recall that.

[a1na2]

RE_POST!

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO SEE THIS CRAP?

AT LEAST WAIT UNTIL THEY THIN DOWN THE LIST, AS IT STANDS WE HAVE ZERO KEEPERS IN THE RACE.

banyon, can you read it now?

DILLIRGASAWYT?

[patteeu]

RE_POST!

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO SEE THIS CRAP?

AT LEAST WAIT UNTIL THEY THIN DOWN THE LIST, AS IT STANDS WE HAVE ZERO KEEPERS IN THE RACE.

banyon, can you read it now?

DILLIRGASAWYT?

banyon is the one who understood what you were saying the first time. I'm the one who got it wrong.

[Ultra Peanut]

I'm firmly on the Obama bandwagon.Oh, Archie!