They love Ron Paul in South Korea
November 27, 2007 at 1:45 pm by Wayne GarciaPrepping today for the GOP CNN-YouTube-Snowman debate tomorrow in St. Pete when I tripped across libertarian/interwebs craze Dr. Ron Paul’s listing of his finishes in recent straw polls. Now, of course, these polls are not scientific and are largely meaningless, but that doesn’t stop him or his supporters from touting them as proof of some kind of glitch or conspiracy in national polls that show Paul running closer to the bottom of the pack.
Here’s a few of the recent straw polls in which Paul did remarkably well:
Straw Poll Date Rank Votes Republican Abroad Korea Straw Poll (Seoul, Korea) 11/17/2007 1 50.0% Fresno County GOP Straw Poll, Fresno, CA 11/15/2007 1 35.0% Evanston (IL) Republican Club Straw Poll 11/11/2007 4 10.9% New York State Republican Straw Poll, New York City, NY 11/6/2007 1 43.3% South Sound Ronald Reagan Republican Club, Tacoma, WA 11/01/2007 1 37.7% Springfield Metropolitan Republican Club, Springfield, MO 11/01/2007 1 77.3% Laramie County GOP Straw Poll, Cheyenne, WY 10/28/2007 1 48.0%
Gotta put some extra troops on the ground in Evanston, apparently.
Lower in the listings, you find he also finished first in a straw poll at the Ronald Reagan Club in Washington state. I simply must drop in one those cats next time I am in the Pac Northwest, get my dark blue suit pressed neat for the occasion. As this video shows, 43 votes will win you this much coveted title:
The excitement was palpable, wasn’t it?
