cqpolitics.com - 3/1/2009
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If the Republican Party’s conservative wing had the power to choose presidential nominees, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney would be the hands-down choice. For the third straight year, activists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) chose Romney, a candidate in the ...
politico.com - 2/26/2009
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politico.com —
The Republican Party is, understandably, extremely eager to
put forward a new, new face, and so maybe...
it's no coincidence that of the three who have come to the fore post-election -- Sarah Palin, Michael Steele, and Bobby Jindal, none are white men. ...
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Coming back to Romney
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 3/1/2009
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From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro and Abby LivingstonFor the
third straight year, Mitt Romney won the CPAC presidential...
preference straw poll with 20% of the vote. Bobby Jindal finished with 14%, just ahead of Ron Paul and Sarah Palin, who got 13% ...
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Romney wins CPAC poll again
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Romney Wins CPAC Straw Poll
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
For the third straight year, activists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) chose Mitt Romney as their next presidential favorite in a straw poll, CQ Politics reports. ...
Conservatives Cling to Romney
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... The conservative wing of the Republican Party still has a lot of affection, oddly enough, for the former governor of the Peoples Republic of Taxachusetts. For the third straight year, Mitt Romney beat out the likes of Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee in a poll of conservative activists. ...
Conservatives Cling to Romney
The Hollywood Liberal —
... : If the Republican Party’s conservative wing had the power to choose presidential nominees, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney would be the hands-down choice. For the third straight year, activists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) chose Romney, a candidate in the 2008 primaries, as their next presidential favorite in a straw poll. Read more CNN Political Ticker: Twenty-nine percent of Republicans questioned in a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they are most likely to support Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for the GOP ...
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Romney wins! Romney wins! —
The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings That is, he won CPAC's straw poll for 2012 . How nice it must be, how utterly rewarding, to receive such a vote of confidence from the inmates of the right-wing insanitarium. I'm sure Romney just lapped it up. ********** How's this for (un)impressive? The top ...
CPAC Straw Poll: Mitt Romney Wins, Bobby Jindal Second —
PoliGazette
The results of the CPAC straw poll this year will surprise quite some people:
Former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney won. 20% of conservative activists present said they would vote for Romney if they’d have to vote for the Republican nominee for president already.
Second place ...
Second Look at Romney? —
Ace of Spades HQ
Something that I've been thinking, and I've heard repeated by a diverse range* of CPAC attendees -- Romney wasn't taken seriously enough and would, in the current economic situation, be a terrific president. And he could have ridden his financial...