CPAC straw poll

Not that it has any significance, beyond being interesting, but the Conservative PAC meeting ended today with announcement of the straw poll results. Results may be somewhat influenced by the fact that Palin and Huckabee did not attend or speak. But here they are:

Ron Paul 30% (he also won in 2008, which shows how predictive this poll is)

Mitt Romney 23%

But 42% voted for somebody else, spread out among a whole bunch of them: Gary Johnson 6%; Chris Christie 6%; Newt Gingrich 5%; Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, and Mitch Daniels each 4%; Sarah Palin 3%; Herman Cain, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, and John Thune, each 2%, and John Huntsman and Haley Barbour, each 1%.

Let's hope Newt doesn't see this as a groundswell mandate for him. It wouldn't surprise me though, if he does. Newt's pretty creative when it comes to imagined mandates.

Ralph