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Old 08-19-2007, 09:12 PM
NickMPK NickMPK is offline
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Default Re: Ron Paul Wins Alabama/New Hampshire Straw Polls by Landslide


A straw poll is typically a vote taken among people who are attending a local party meeting or convention. It is not in any way a sampling of the voters in the county, just a count of the people who happened to show up at the meeting.

It is likely that the voters in these polls consisted of (a) leaders of the county Republican party organization and (b) a bunch of Paul supporters who decided to "crash" the meeting in order to generate some press for their candidate.
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