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	Romney wins Iowa straw poll - CNN.com
		Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney received almost 32 percent of the vote in the Iowa Republican straw poll.
		The straw poll was held on the campus of Iowa State University and is viewed as a test of organizational strength in Iowa.
		Romney and Brownback invested the most resources in the straw poll by paying for the privilege to erect massive tents near the voting entrance.
	www.cnn.com /2007/POLITICS/08/11/iowa.straw.poll/index.html?section=cnn_latest (631 words)

	Straw poll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A straw poll is an informal type of voting where the results of the poll have little or no direct results, other than to gauge opinion.
		Straw polls are commonly used in American political caucuses, where the primary goals are to select delegates and vote on resolutions.
		The results of the straw polls may or may not influence the delegates as they participate in political conventions after the caucus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Straw_poll (124 words)

	Wikipedia:Straw polls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		straw polls may be conducted to help determine consensus, but are to be used with caution and not to be treated as binding votes.
		Instead, just give everybody a chance to chip in with a simple yes or no. Straw polls may trigger discussions instead—that's not a failure, it just means you know that the issue is not clear-cut, which is what you set out to determine in the first place.
		A straw poll is not a binding vote, or a way to beat dissenters over the head with the will of the majority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Straw_polls (732 words)

	Frist wins, Romney takes 2d in GOP straw poll - The Boston Globe
		Romney's supporters erupted into wild cheers yesterday as the results of the poll were announced at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, a gathering of Southern and Midwestern GOP leaders.
		Frist, the Senate majority leader, handily won the straw poll, which was conducted by the political website Hotline, taking 36.9 percent of the 1,427 ballots cast.
		Romney was not present when the results of the straw poll were announced, and a spokeswoman for the governor did not return a call yesterday evening.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/03/12/frist_wins_romney_takes_2d_in_gop_straw_poll (673 words)

	RE: [ws-rx] RE: Groups - oasis - New ballot"Straw poll for issue PR001"
		Even on a straw poll, it is unreasonable to assume a conclusion if the result may be substantially different from the result one might achieve of a poll of voting members.
		At least when a straw poll is done on a call, it is limited to those who are motivated to attend.
		On the other hand, to keep the ballot fair and not abuse it by block-voting/stuffing, I expect that the TC members apply their own conscience/judgment in deciding whether to vote or not.
	www.oasis-open.org /archives/ws-rx/200611/msg00192.html (340 words)

	State: Convention straw poll out, presidential candidates in
		A nonbinding straw poll is officially meaningless, but it would offer a revealing glimpse of public opinion about the field of contenders seeking to take on President Bush next year.
		Supporters of a straw poll said it would excite grass roots activists at a time when many voters have not yet focused on the crowded field of contenders.
		Maddox told activists that most candidates opposed the straw poll as a costly popularity contest that would be a political "death knell" to anyone who did poorly.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/11/17/news_pf/State/Convention_straw_poll.shtml (805 words)

	Poll Watch: Public Yawns on Eve of Iowa Straw Poll
		ith the Iowa Republicans' straw poll scheduled for Aug. 14 in Ames, the year 2000 Presidential election campaign has its first event, albeit a non-binding pseudo-event that is part fundraiser, part beauty contest, and partly an early test of the candidates' organization and money.
		In polls taken by The Times and CBS News in both January 1996 and January 1992, 20 percent of registered voters said they were paying "a lot of attention" as each election year opened.
		One of the things to keep an eye on, starting with the Iowa Republicans' straw poll, is whether, as campaign 2000 gets underway, the political atmosphere starts to look more like the excitement and urgency of 1992, or more like the dullness and lack of competitiveness of 1996.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/national/081299poll-watch.html (866 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: The Iowa Straw Poll
		The Iowa straw poll is a fund-raiser for the state Republican Party and an early test of campaign strength.
		The straw poll is one of the few times that Iowa voters get to hear from most of the Republican candidates side-by-side.
		The Des Moines Register created the Iowa straw poll in 1975 to gauge the strength of the Democratic presidential candidates.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/strawpoll081399.htm (517 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Iowa's GOP Poll: It's Straw, All Right
		This straw poll is a spinoff of one I arranged for the Des Moines Register at a Democratic gathering in Ames back in 1975.
		The caucus vote on the presidential candidates is a straw poll that has no bearing whatsoever on the party's control or on the selection of the state's GOP national delegates.
		Supposedly, a straw poll's purpose is to show the contributors how a candidate appeals to the grass-roots voters.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/strawpoll080899.htm (2052 words)

	The Real Iowa Straw Poll Results
		Gary Bauer--The superficiality of the straw poll actually works out to his benefit, because he was having so much trouble being treated as a serious candidate by the media.
		Candidates who accept federal matching funds are only allowed to spend so much on campaigning in each state, so in buying a strong finish in the straw poll, she left herself less money to campaign before the Iowa Caucus, where the votes will be taken for real.
		John McCain--Complaining that the straw poll is the sham that it is, Senator McCain refused to attend.
	shinbone.home.att.net /strawpoll.htm (1613 words)

	Delaware Grapevine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		It scuffed what was otherwise a triumphant debut for Ting at a party event -- the Delaware Republicans' annual winter meeting with a straw poll of its U.S. Senate candidates during a dinner at the Christiana Hilton.
		Straw polls typically are too phony to mean anything -- won by the candidate who buys up the most tickets -- but this one with its restricted voting provides a gauge of the candidates' backing within the party leadership.
		The straw poll demonstrated the state committee members' rejection of two anti-Ting letters circulated among them in the week beforehand.
	delawaregrapevine.com /3-06senatestraw.asp (675 words)

	MacDems: Results from the St. Paul DFL Straw Poll
		Maybe Ford Bell would be doing a better job in all the polls if he spent his time spreading his "clear message for peace" (Like the macdems meeting he didn't come to) instead of having his lackeys attempt to spread rumors around the blogs.
		As for the straw poll, it was nice of them to wave the fee for us.
		And on the general straw poll crowd - at least half the people there were campaign people, there is no possible way I would believe Amy Klobuchar had bought the tickets of 100 people there because I doubt there were even 100 non-campaign-people there.
	www.macalester.edu /macdems/2006/02/results-from-st-paul-dfl-straw-poll.html (1922 words)

	The Stranger \| Seattle \| Slog: The Stranger's Blog \| Straw Poll Results (Warning: Totally Unscientific, but Totally ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		I think you people set a Slog record yesterday, dropping over 100 votes into the comments section of my straw poll on the six serious candidates who are seeking to be the next state representative from Seattle’s 43rd District.
		I think it means people need to participate in the Straw Poll at the 43rd District Democrats Candidate Forum to be held at Town Hall.
		The bonus is that the straw poll there will actually be two straw polls - one is a one person in audience one vote poll and the other is a pay a dollar get a vote poll.
	www.thestranger.com /blog/2006/04/straw_poll_results_warnin.php (886 words)

	Blogcritics.org: AOL Straw Poll: Bush 535, Kerry 3
		The so-called poll is a joke [edited]So, reasonable people have moved on to considering current polling that does not suffer from the defects of this boondoggle.
		AOL has takent the straw poll off their Website or moved it so as not to be able to be found.
		I choose to believe that a cross section of Americans using AOL participating in their straw poll IS more scientific and more believable than a pollster calling 900 people from New England and asking them whom they would vote for for President.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/09/04/120446.php (8664 words)

	Frist Wins Hotline Straw Poll » Outside The Beltway \| OTB
		Hotline conducted a straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
		As to the straw poll, “The results were clouded by a request by Mr.
		Straw polls have been gamed to the point that the artform of it is taught at conservative leadership schools like the Leadership Institute’s YLS.
	www.outsidethebeltway.com /archives/2006/03/frist_wins_hotline_straw_poll (1095 words)

	WisPolitics.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Straw poll ballots totaled 322, meaning there were votes from roughly half of those who officially attended.
		WisPolitics.com staged the straw poll to take the temperature of activists in advance of what likely will be a series of spirited Republican primaries next year.
		The straw poll is not officially sanctioned by the Republican Party of Wisconsin and is run solely by WisPolitics.com.
	www.wispolitics.com /index.iml?Article=36495 (517 words)

	And the Republican straw poll winner is Frist - Hardball with Chris Matthews - MSNBC.com
		The results of the GOP straw poll were announced live at 9pm Eastern Time on MSNBC’s Hardball.
		Meanwhile on Saturday in Livingston County, Mich., a fast-growing exurban county near Detroit, Romney won a straw poll of GOP activists, according to Michigan Republican Party chairman Saul Anuzis who was in Memphis.
		This was a reference to an effort by Frist’s rival for the nomination, McCain to persuade the attendees to cast a write-in vote for the beleaguered President Bush in Saturday’s straw poll.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11782578 (868 words)

	Online NewsHour: Iowa Straw Poll -- August 13, 1999
		Political straw polls, like the one in Iowa this weekend, have helped candidates kick start campaigns while spelling doom for others.
		Although organizers admit the poll is unscientific, they contend it often measures the strength of the campaign organization.
		Mark Miller, who was the state party finance director in 1987 said "The Iowa straw poll was devised as a fund-raising gimmick for the state party and nothing more than that." It costs $25 to vote, which means that the party will raise $375,000 if the expected 15,000 people show up.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/election/july-dec99/straw_poll_background.html (801 words)

	RE: [ws-rx] RE: Groups - oasis - New ballot "Straw poll for issue PR001"
		Bob, You seem to be fine with the idea of allowing ALL attendees of a conf-call to participate in a straw poll.
		So are you saying that even for straw polls conducted during conf-calls, we should check for the possibility of different results based on the voting status of the attendees and then decide whether accepting the result was reasonable or not!
		You may be right about considering motivation for attending a call in deciding elibility for voting on a straw poll in that call.
	www.oasis-open.org /archives/ws-rx/200611/msg00194.html (565 words)

	Republicans sweep in straw poll
		These are the results according an unscientic straw poll conducted by the Missouri Farm Bureau at the Missouri State Fair.
		The state's top GOP spokesman suggested politics was behind the slow poll reporting by the Democratic secretary of state's office.
		But, Fretwell argued, the farm organization's straw poll has accurately predicted the November elections about 90 percent of the time in its 20-year history.
	www.mdn.org /2000/STORIES/STRAW.HTM (303 words)

	Bloomberg.com: U.S.
		The straw poll was conducted at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, where six Republicans, all considering a run for the presidency, addressed the group.
		Frist had arranged for several busloads of delegates to come to the conference, which is not unusual for a straw poll, which stresses organizational skill rather than oratorical prowess.
		Most of the speakers were careful to emphasize that the straw poll wasn't very important in the political process 22 months before the election, even as an indicator of who is leading among the party faithful.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=ayiAu5Gx2OSU&refer=us (605 words)

	DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2006® (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Facing a loss at a 2008 straw poll event this weekend, Senator John McCain of Arizona told his supporters to write in President Bush [?] as a sign of support, leaving many sputtering.
		McCain, realizing the national political media had descended on the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, moved to discredit the straw poll by asking delegates to vote for Bush, insiders claim.
		Instead of stopping the momentum of Majority Leader Bill Frist - widely anticipated to win the straw poll - the move seemed to expose the McCain camp's insincerity about its position with the base.
	www.drudgereport.com /flash2mc.htm (213 words)

	Specter raps straw-poll politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Claiming a Republican presidential straw poll may be encouraging some candidates to violate campaign finance laws, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter has removed himself from the poll, slated for Saturday as part of the Iowa GOP's ''Caucus Kick-off '96.''
		''No matter how many votes he gets in the straw poll, Morry Taylor is not going to win the Iowa caucuses,'' Stone commented, referring to the millionaire industrialist who purchased a fleet of motor homes with which to wage his campaign.
		Kennedy predicted about 90 percent of the people who cast straw poll ballots ''will be Iowa Republicans.'' He also agreed with Branstad that while the poll isn't scientific, ''it does give a general sense of the relative strengths of the campaigns''.
	www.gazetteonline.com /caucus/straw/gspecc.htm (625 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Iowa Straw Poll -- August 1999
		Listen to the Iowa Press panel discuss the state and direction of the Iowa GOP with its chairman, Kayne Robinson.
		A look at the history of the Iowa straw poll and why it means so much in today's politics.
		Paul Gigot and Tom Oliphant discuss the political weight of the Iowa straw poll.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/election/july-dec99/straw_poll.html (141 words)

	The Fix -- Chris Cillizza's Politics Blog on washingtonpost.com
		On the ground it was evident that Romney and Brownback had spent the most money courting straw poll voters, while Huckabee was working with a far smaller budget (his campaign spent $150,000 or so, according campaign manager Chip Saltsman).
		Polling in Iowa shows him with a comfortable lead over his rivals, and his campaign has spent more than seven figures campaigning to do well in the straw poll, and it shows.
		Ron Paul: The Texas congressman is the X-factor in the straw poll.
	blog.washingtonpost.com /thefix (4177 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Stephens is the winner of governor straw poll
		OREM — Nearly 1,600 Republicans braved the winter weather to listen to candidates cast a vote in Utah's first county straw poll this year.
		Acknowledging differences about how effective a straw poll could be, the campaign released its own findings.
		In a statewide poll conducted by Dan Jones & Associates and sponsored by the Huntsman for Governor campaign, Huntsman would be the only candidate able to beat Democrat Scott Matheson.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,590041892,00.html (430 words)

	News Copy, New York: Thanksgiving Weekend Straw Poll
		Rudy Giuliani is increasing his vast lead in a very unscientific GOP Presidential Straw Poll conducted by national blogger Hugh Hewitt over the Thanksgiving weekend.
		Morning progress for Hugh Hewitt's Thanksgiving Weekend Straw Poll on the prospective 2008 candidates, the first HughHewitt.com GOP Presidential Straw Poll (based on the Pat Ruffini's regular Presidential straw polls) -- show John McCain has lost significant ground since Ruffini's last poll earlier this fall.
		We noticed that Hugh Hewitt's Thanksgiving Weekend Straw Poll will be a work in progress for the next 3-4 days at least.
	www.newscopy.org /thanksgiving_weekend_straw_poll (906 words)

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