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dharmabum
08-12-2007, 12:13 PM
Yepsen: Republicans seem lethargic about choices (http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070812/OPINION01/708120348/1001)

Ames, Ia. - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney may have won the Iowa Republican straw poll here Saturday, but his victory was a bit hollow. There are signs he may not be the prohibitive front-runner in Iowa after all.

Only 14,302 people voted in the poll, far fewer than the 23,685 who cast ballots in the last big straw poll in 1999.

That's a sign Republicans are not happy with their choices. At least they aren't excited enough to brave the summer heat to vote for them.

Romney got 4,516 votes, fewer than the 7,418 votes George W. Bush received when he won the 1999 straw poll.
500lbguerilla
08-12-2007, 03:05 PM
Given that they had to "recount the votes" and the extremely low vote count, this seems a little fishy.
Brooks
08-12-2007, 03:45 PM
What does this mean?
Are they going to vote for Democrats next November?
dharmabum
08-12-2007, 05:52 PM
What does this mean?
Are they going to vote for Democrats next November?

Try reading the article. :thumbs:
Freethinker
08-12-2007, 06:30 PM
What does this mean?
Are they going to vote for Democrats next November?

No.

Reading the article, it seems quite clear that it means that the Republican voters do not have much enthusiasm about the choices.
Travh20
08-13-2007, 03:38 PM
It's funny, because a high turn out would have been spun this way too, and posted by the same useful idiot.
Freethinker
08-13-2007, 04:09 PM
...... a high turn out would have been spun this way too.

That is a very illogical prophecy.
silverbulletkc
08-13-2007, 04:14 PM
Maybe this just shows that very few people care right now because we're worrying about our next presidential candidate way too early in the race.

I'm one of those.
dharmabum
08-13-2007, 05:10 PM
That is a very illogical prophecy.

Thats our Trav. :thumbs:
Travh20
08-13-2007, 05:17 PM
That is a very illogical prophecy.

It may be illogical but you are not denying it would be made.
mikezila
08-13-2007, 07:17 PM
It may be illogical but you are not denying it would be made.
that would be like denying that the sun will rise in the morning.
sedan
08-13-2007, 07:31 PM
Did someone say GOP Funk??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWRSgjDEQy0

ROFL!!
Freethinker
08-13-2007, 07:53 PM
It may be illogical but you are not denying it would be made.

I do not know if it would or not.

But I find it --to put it mildly-- extremely unlikely.
mikezila
08-13-2007, 07:59 PM
Did someone say GOP Funk??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWRSgjDEQy0

ROFL!!
:lolhit: oh no! not again!


don't make me get out the Clinton/Gore Macarena vid!:hahanot:
sedan
08-13-2007, 08:11 PM
:lolhit: oh no! not again!


don't make me get out the Clinton/Gore Macarena vid!:hahanot:LOL, if you do I'll post Bush doing the African dance.

Last night on his radio show Drudge kept playing Obama's singing:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2007/08/10/sot.obama.singing.cnn

He definitely sings better than Hillary.
Brooks
08-14-2007, 10:25 AM
Reading the article, it seems quite clear that it means that the Republican voters do not have much enthusiasm about the choices.Well to repeat my original question, that you and Dhrama Q think reflects my not reading the article:
What does this mean?
Are they going to vote for Democrats next November?

In other words, so what?

Were Bush-haters enthused about John Kerry? Probably not.