The Official Ames Straw Poll Thread

[parocks]

Hopefully Cain and/or Santorum finish ahead of Pawlenty and knock him out.

Would make things a little bit easier for Romney, presumably.

It's seems to look like Paul and Bachmann will be 1 and 2. The story is tea party is strong.

 

[trey4sports]

If they give out a ticket, does the person HAVE to vote for her?

no, but they most likely will.

 

[Bama Boy]

I hear Randy Travis playing on CSPAN. Should be a good concert.

 

[wstrucke]

We're not Pawlenty's campaign in which the straw poll makes or breaks the campaign.

You're right, of course. I think it's all of the people going on all day on this thread about how we could come in 1st, getting everyone's hopes up. It's good to keep it in perspective, but there's also the point that we need as many victories as we can to make it impossible for the MSM to discount us.

 

[libertybrewcity]

Bachmann will do whatever AND SAY WHATEVER she has to do to win. She wants to demoralize us. Don't let her get us down. I bet Paul has given more votes to voters than she did.

 

[KramerDSP]

Unless Ron Paul supporters are asking for additional tickets from the Bachmann camp? Am I reaching?

 

[specsaregood]

Joe Scarborough claiming Bachmann will win. Per Twitter

He also recently claimed that voting against raising the debt ceiling was irresponsible. The MIC has finished reprogramming him.

 

[CaptUSA]

I heard them say that in order to get in to listen to Randy Travis, you had to pledge support for Bachman...

Hear's hoping some of those tickets don't really go to votes...

 

[Aratus]

40 mintes to go until 4 p.m and the closing of the poll?

 

[Pro-Life Libertarian]

Woman defending Ron on C-Span

 

[Ranger29860]

I heard them say that in order to get in to listen to Randy Travis, you had to pledge support for Bachman...

Hear's hoping some of those tickets don't really go to votes...

I pledge to bachman she has really opened my eyes to what can be done for this country.../get ticket and go wash mouth

 

[wstrucke]

Just heard a women on CSPAN correcting misnomers about RP.

 

[acptulsa]

We're at coin flips right now. Won't know until it's announced.



Isn't that actually not true? He got delegates.

That actually is not true. He did get delegates. They didn't necessarily get their votes counted, but he did get delegates.

But, you know, there's a reason it's called Faux. Just a little more yellowcake-grade 'journalism'...

 

[flightlesskiwi]

really? you can't not cuss when you call cspan and talk about Ron Paul?

 

[Pro-Life Libertarian]

Man just cussed about Ron and got cut off..

 

[wstrucke]

haha, this guy just said "shit" on cspan so they hung up on him. Too bad he was defending RP. People need to stay calm.

 

[ForLibertyFight]

lol did you guys catch that caller on cspan who was talking about how other candidates are stealing paul's talking points? he got disconnected for saying shit lol

 

[lucky_bg]

Woman on C-Span was great! Real lady.

 

[Ranger29860]

Man just cussed about Ron and got cut off..

Against or for him?

 

[Matthew Zak]

I can't believe this thread is 77 pages (as I type this message) filled with pure speculation. What a waste of space on the internet. I wish the mods would just delete 76 pages of this mess. It's silly to get all crazy over some "statistics" that are not based on the actual votes. Let's just wait for the votes please.