Posted by James V. Lacy at 12:00 am on Mar 03, 2007 4 Comments
Though Duane DiChiara has already "stepped-on" my reporting from
the CPAC meetingby beating me in postingresults of the
Presidential straw poll here at the conference, I’ll thank him for
getting the information to you a few hours before I could get to a
computer. I was delayed because I attendeda post-CPAC
party at Grover Norquist’s house on Capitol Hill. I did not
see DiChiara at the party, by the way, but did see native
Californian John Fund of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial
pages.
I can add a little of context about the CPAC poll,
however. It comprised a total of 1,705 votes of the CPAC
delegates. I talked to Grover (president of Americans for Tax
Reform) about his take on the vote, and the following is an amalgam
of our thoughts. It was interesting that Romney led with 21%.
Guiliani did rather well himself, coming in with 17%. This is
especially the case because Guiliani did not buy an exhibitors’
booth,have signs or campaign literature,or have paid
staff working the entire convention, as did Romney. Sam
Brownback surprised with 15%, and Gingrich was no surprise with a
close 14%
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