Herman Cain edges out Ron Paul at Georgia GOP fish fry
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At a Georgia GOP organized fish fry
Herman Cain wins straw poll
edging out Ron Paul
Georgia native and tea party favorite Herman Cain edged out libertarian Ron Paul at the GOP annual fish fry down in Perry, Georgia on Saturday.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney finished a surprisingly distant fifth, behind Texas Gov. Rick Perry and another Georgia favorite, former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich. Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann also had a weak showing. Over 1100 tickets were sold, he said, and 890 votes were cast.
The totals:
– Herman Cain, 232 or 26 percent;
– Ron Paul, 229 or 25.7 percent;
– Rick Perry, 179 or 20 percent;
– Newt Gingrich, 162 or 18 percent;
– Mitt Romney, 51 or 6 percent;
– Michele Bachman, 29 or 3 percent;
– Rick Santorum, 4 or .4 percent
– Jon Huntsman, 3 or .3 percent;
– Thad McCotter, 1 or .1 percent;
– Buddy Roemer, 0;
– Gary Johnson, 0
I’m back – Just finished 4th in a fish fry straw poll
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Bookmarked dude.
I love that every poll, pudit, and daily paper comes up with a new Republican frontrunner every other day. Shows me that the right doesn’t know whether to shit or go blind, much less who to vote for.
What an outlandish bunch of duffuses. Is this the best the GOP can do? Apparently. The best I can figure is that they are saving their top shelf candidates for the next go around. Bruce Bartlett, a political advisor to Reagen had this to say of Perry: “Rick Perry’s an idiot, and I don’t think anyone would disagree with that.” They all look pretty silly to me.
What we are missing here is that it was a major GOP fish fry straw poll, so how much weight does that carry. The effort that went into going to the local supermarket to buy lbs. and lbs. of frozen catfish to host this mammoth event. Only MadMikesAmerica could match an occasion of this magnitude.