Texas Congressman Ron Paul ran away with 40 percent of the vote at the Republican Leadership Conference's straw poll vote in New Orleans Saturday, after losing by just one vote to Mitt Romney at last year's conference.
From the audience's reaction, you might not have guessed how easily Paul won. Much of the crowd booed as poll results were announced. A small number of cheers could be heard from the Texas congressman's supporters, but noticeably absent was his massive following who filled the conference center on Friday with their Ron Paul signs, chants, and cheers.
Despite a last-minute cancellation of his scheduled speech, citing a bad cold, Jon Huntsman finished second in the polls with 25 percent of the vote - ahead of Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann (13 percent), businessman Herman Cain (7 percent), and the winner of last year's poll, and current Republican front-runner, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (5 percent), who did not attend the conference.
4 comments:
Go Ron Paul!
At least he has a grasp of our most pressing issue....the economy, not some two-bit country in the middle East.
We would do well to elect Ron Paul in 2012. Back to the basics America! Basic civil liberties and freedom. We will soon be like Greece if we don't immediately turn this country around.
Nice, Ron Paul stands head and shoulders above the other senators in common sense and compassion.
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