Despite Showing Up In Person, Romney Loses Nev. Straw Poll

[0zzy]

PARKS, Nev. – Ron Paul won the GOP presidential straw poll conducted by organizers at the Conservative Leadership Conference held at the Nugget Casino this weekend “by a large margin,” according to an organizer.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/14/410525.aspx

The rest of the article is about Romney, surprisingly. Ron Paul wins, let's talk about Romney and Reagan!

 

[terlinguatx]

MSNBC acknowledges Paul's straw poll victory in Nevada

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[terlinguatx]

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[ItsTime]

its more shocking that romney lost when he gave a speech there.

Although the bias is still there in the title with "romney loses" instead of "paul wins"

 

[Suzu]

I posted a comment: How about changing that headline to read "DESPITE NOT SHOWING UP IN PERSON, PAUL WINS NEV. STRAW POLL"? Let's see if it passes their moderation.

 

[torchbearer]

My comment:
Ron Paul wins a straw poll, so you write a story about Romney? I'm thinking you missed the bigger part of that news.

 

[undergroundrr]

I think this is monumental. Romney is on the cover of Newsweek right now for pete's sake. Romney showed up and participated. Paul was all the way across the country. To me, this is the most significant straw poll win yet.

 

[torchbearer]

I think this is monumental. Romney is on the cover of Newsweek right now for pete's sake. Romney showed up and participated. Paul was all the way across the country. To me, this is the most significant straw poll win yet.

Romney paid for people to attend that didn't vote for him... its in the article. He can't even buy a vote anymore. HA!

 

[steph3n]

this was a big event too, not simply a county GOP poll that could be easily manipulated by a mass of supports grassroots communications

 

[reaver]

Imagine that, restriction of comments. I guess mine wont make it.

 

[torchbearer]

no comments up yet... i'm sure they've gotten quite a few by now.

 

[Cowlesy]

Cut Chuck Todd a break -- He's probably watching football and halfway checking his post on his forum. He always seems good at letting people express their opinions with comments.

 

[Bradley in DC]

The was already posted in the official news section where it belongs. Please check before polluting the forum with needless duplicates.

 

[stevedasbach]

Why are we quibbling about the headline? It's a good article for Dr. Paul.

 

[torchbearer]

well, my comment is directed to the author not the director, so he shouldn't be offended by it.

 

[torchbearer]

We are quibbling about Headlines because the headlines are usually all that most people read... so, from that perspective, people will not get the picture the Ron Paul won the event.

 

[stevedasbach]

The was already posted in the official news section where it belongs. Please check before polluting the forum with needless duplicates.

This thread was posted at 3:08. The one you referred to was posted at 3:06. Even if he checked before starting to compose his post, the other one probably wasn't up yet.

Also, this victory appears to have been organized by the grassroots, not the campaign, so it isn't really clear that the thread belongs there instead of here.

 

[ItsTime]

I am glad that the first line is "Ron Paul won the GOP presidential straw poll conducted by organizers at the Conservative Leadership Conference held at the Nugget Casino this weekend “by a large margin,” according to an organizer."

We are quibbling about Headlines because the headlines are usually all that most people read... so, from that perspective, people will not get the picture the Ron Paul won the event.

 

[torchbearer]

I am glad that the first line is "Ron Paul won the GOP presidential straw poll conducted by organizers at the Conservative Leadership Conference held at the Nugget Casino this weekend “by a large margin,” according to an organizer."

Yes, that is awesome. usually that info is buried at the end of the article. Now we just need the headlines to match the top line.. which is the big story.

 

[EvilEngineer]

LOL, excellent. Romney loose while in attendance. Muhaha... the tide is turning. I wonder how pissed he was when he got the results.