Reuters Ron Paul was declared the winner on Saturday of a weeklong Republican presidential straw poll in Democratic President Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois.
Republican Presidential Candidate and Congressman Ron Paul
Texas Congressman Paul won 52 percent of the combined 3,649 online and in-person votes cast between October 29 and Saturday evening. He won 66.5 percent of the votes cast over the Internet and 8 percent of those cast in person.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney earned 7 percent of the online votes cast and 35 percent of the in-person votes, winning the most in-person votes cast at 22 locations, the party said.
Businessman Herman Cain won 15 percent of the online vote and 29 percent of the in-person vote.
Romney’s and Cain’s combined totals were not immediately announced.
Fast Tube by Casper
Each voter was required to make a $5 contribution to the Illinois Republican Party to cover costs of the straw poll and to support state and local Republican candidates.
“Today’s straw poll was an excellent opportunity to showcase our party’s strength one year out of the election,” said Illinois Republican Party chairman Pat Brady. “I am pleased with today’s turnout and look forward to building on our successes from 2010.”
Republicans hope to make Illinois a contested state in the 2012 general election, after Obama won his home state easily in the 2008 election.
Fast Tube by Casper
Illinois Republicans captured four additional seats in the House of Representatives in the 2010 mid-term elections, giving them an 11 to eight majority.
Ron Paul is not what many seem to think, at least those who see in him a kindly nice old Doc who is against our imperial wars war and our drug war. He is also against civil rights laws, he is against women’s right to control their own bodies, he is against income tax, federal oversight of education, public health care, he is against federal standards for just about everything except immigration and military/defense issues. He is an ardent supporter of “States’ rights” which any student of history or public policy will see means allowing legal oppression of minorities. Ron Paul is right about a few things, but he’s wrong about too many things to render him a reasonable option for public office – indeed any office which is to uphold the constitution.
I disagree with you on RP. He’s against “people corporatehood,” which is FORCED so-called civil rights laws. If you’ll take a look at Title 42, Chapter 21, our so-called rights, you’ll read that U.S. Citizens are subject to ” punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses,and exactions of every kind, and to no other.” I don’t know about you, but I can do without all of that! Clearly, you are simply repeating talking points. You don’t understand what the problem is, so how can you understand the solution? You may want to check out my article and video U.S. Citizens and the New World Order.