The Palin/Bachmann Ticket Moves Into Position

Did anyone notice the straw poll results from the CPAC convention? CPAC is the Conservative Political Action Conference. With all this talk about Palin and Bachmann and Palin/Bachmann and Bachmann/Palin and so on and so forth, one would be surprised if they didn’t come in at or near the top of the poll. Here were the results:

Ron Raul: 30%,
Mitt Romney: 23%,
Gary Johnson 6%,
Chris Christie 6%,
Newt Gingrich: 5%,
Tim Pawlenty 4%,

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Michele Bachmann 4%,
Mitch Daniels 4%,
Sarah Palin: 3%,
Herman Cain 2%,
Mike Huckabee 2%,
Rick Santorum 2%,
John Thune 2%,
Jon Huntsman 1%,
Haley Barbour 1%

Comments

#1 DethB4DCaf
February 16, 2011

For some reason that just gives me a warm-n-fuzzy feeling…
#2 richardrob
February 16, 2011

Ok, but… Ron Paul? How good a predictor are these straw polls? Because that would be great for Obama.
#3 https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkofBULsDk95rkoyEJGSQ36kh07H0MI9vs
February 16, 2011

I thought the arch-conservatives stayed away because of fear of teh gay and teh muslim.
#4 Kierra
February 16, 2011

But together they will be even greater* than either is alone!

*And by “greater” I clearly mean “more ridiculous.”
#5 Drivebyposter
February 16, 2011

Can you imagine those two trying to outright each other? Eventually they will BOTH be marxist commie pedophile sodomites (according to each other)
#6 Greg Laden
February 16, 2011

Ok, but… Ron Paul? How good a predictor are these straw polls?

In 2008, Romney was first and McCain was a very very close second. So that year the poll was pretty predictive but certainly not absolute. But really, how good is the Iowa caucus? Or New Hampshire? This is a bit like that, an early indicator. Of course, this year’s will not be as important as next year’s.
#7 Aseem
February 16, 2011

@Drivebyposter:
Nope. They would both be gay black Marxist Nazi commie atheist Muslim pedophiles who weren’t born in the US and don’t have birth certificates.
#8 D. C. Sessions
February 16, 2011

Greg, you’re a cruel dude. Dashing my dreams like that.
#9 ellie
February 17, 2011

More detailed info on what this might, or might not, mean at fivethirtyeight.com:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/what-early-presidential-polls-tell-us/
#10 Curtis
February 17, 2011

Shoot! I already purchased my bumper sticker.
PALIN-BACHMANN 2012 ” Because we’re not stupid enough!”