Ron Paul has won two separate tallies for the National Federation of Republican Assemblies Presidential Straw Poll.
Paul won both the Iowa-voters-only count at the Saturday convention in Des Moines as well as a tally of non-Iowans who participated.
In the Iowa voters result, Paul took 82%. Following him were Herman Cain with 14.7%, Rick Santorum with 1%, Newt Gingrich with 0.9%, Michele Bachmann with 0.5%, Rick Perry with 0.5%, Gary Johnson with 0.2%, with Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman 0%.
The total number of votes cast in that tally was 430.
In the tally of non-Iowans who voted, Paul won 26% followed by Cain at 25%, Perry and Santorum tied at 16%, Gingrich at 11%, Bachmann at 6%, Romney at 1%, and Huntsman and Johnson with 0%.
The total number of votes cast in that count was 101.
Though Paul won both tallies, the NFRA has not yet officially endorsed a candidate. Delegates to the convention will decide that later Saturday.
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Bring on Ron Paul. Just because the media establishment isn’t paying attention to him doesn’t mean people aren’t. His message resonates and has been consistent for the last 30 years.
I can’t imagine he doesn’t get more attention than anybody. He’s practically a figure of worship among some of his followers, a status that I don’t think any other candidate enjoys.
honestly, if I had to guess, Paul is probably the “best man” running. But he will damage the country and the economy if he gets his way regarding economic policy.
Doesn’t make him a bad guy, I was almost literally raised to believe his type of views, but economics remains (potentially) a science, even if it is for all practical purposes, in practice, nothing more than an extension of the personal politics of its preachers.
But, then, thqats more or less true for all of the social “sciences”