Mitt Romney Wins CPAC Straw Poll

Mitt Romney won the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll. Romney received 21 percent of the vote. Rudolph Giuliani won 17 percent Sam Brockbeck was in third with 15 percent.

The big (and unsurprising) news is John McCain came in a disappointing fifth. McCain did not attend the event. Which is probably just as well. Besides no solid Republican support and independents fleeing because of the Iraq war; the McCain campaign is doing great.

Update: Taz makes a point about the straw poll.

Actually, Romney got the most first place votes in the CPAC07 straw poll, but the poll had a semi-Instant Runoff Voting quality to it where they asked particpants to vote by ranking their first and second choice for preisdent. When these votes were combined, Rudy came out the victor with 34%, followed by Romney and Newt Gingrich, both with 30%. I was on location at CPAC in DC when the results were annouced and I'm taking all of this from my notes, so I know it's accurate. Leave it to the MSM to screw up simple reporting jobs like this...

Max Blumenthal at CPAC

Max Blumenthal of The Nation interviewed several people at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Highlights are Michelle Malkin admitting to the several factual errors in her book and Tom Tancredo repeating his Miami is a third world country rant.