#RLC2014 Straw Poll Results: @TedCruz

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by Smitty

Conservative Intel sponsored the poll.


And Senator Ted Cruz is the winner!
Further results:

1. Ted Cruz — 30.33 percent
2. Ben Carson — 29.38 percent
3. Rand Paul — 10.43 percent

more at the link.
Senator Rand Paul had won the last straw poll, in March.
Looking further down the report, blog favorite Allen West placed:

10. Paul Ryan — 2.05 percent
11. Allen West (write-in) — 2.05 percent

Interestingly, Governor Scott Walker was flying below the radar. One hopes the GOP capitalizes on this energy.

UPDATE: More at The Right Scoop.

52 comments

  4. Apparently, 29.38% are mostly concerned with trying very hard at proving they’re not racist. Which, in effect, only makes them look more racist.

    Folks don’t have to prove that they aren’t racist and they should recognize that attempting to do so only makes them look more racist.

  6. the GOP will, in all likelyhood put their energy behind Mr. 4.42% rather than either of the 30%

  11. I’m just saying the poll doesn’t mean a thing because of the tiny sample size. We have around 2000 here at the MN state convention here, and their responses would be better to generalize than 650 folks in New Orleans.

  14. I’ve given over $100 to Alan West and I can assure you white guilt had absolutely nothing to do with it. #fail

  15. Amazing how Smitty can cover the event from Virginia while our man on the scene maintains internet silence.

    Is Stacy in a Nawlins jail? Learning to play the blues?

  16. He’s backtracking the gun control comment a bit in recent interviews. I find him squishy myself. From a recent news story.

    “Dr. Carson played coy about committing to any national party, saying he has in the past been a “flaming liberal Democrat” as well as a “very conservative Republican,” noting he’s currently an independent.

  17. Well (as weak as it is) that statement is more than you would expect out of Jeb or Huckafail.

    I don’t think Carson is running anyway…other than perhaps for a Fox gig.

  19. Suprised to hear this. Sounds like some have already caught themselves up in downplaying potential candidates…to possibly pump up their own preferred candidate.

    See: Rick Perry fans – 2012

  20. Has it been ascertained once and for all if Ted Cruz is eligible for the Presidency? I like the guy…

  25. Well, then, you and your ilk would now have to accept the burden of proof (however misplaced), and show that that would be so much as true. This is progress.

  26. Only election can ascertain that. No one else has standing.

    He’ll have zero problems getting on the ballot in all fifty states and in the territories. All he has to do is win.

  28. I don’t hear anything. But I do see someone stating a preference. Interestingly enough, it meshes quite well with many others who feel the same way.

    Jeb is goin’ nowhere, fast.

  29. I agree. I have great admiration for Dr. Carson and hope he stays very involved in the political process, but he is not remotely qualified to be President. The fact that he has such a large constituency, is disturbing, and shows how much the right has internalized the left’s false accusations of conservative racism.

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