{"id":198727,"date":"2007-10-15T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/15\/mitt-romney-loses-nevada-straw-poll-to-ron-paul\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T02:01:00","slug":"mitt-romney-loses-nevada-straw-poll-to-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/15\/mitt-romney-loses-nevada-straw-poll-to-ron-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney Loses Nevada Straw Poll&#8230;To Ron Paul???????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes you read that right <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2007\/10\/14\/410525.aspx\">Paul beat Romney<\/a>, and he beat him handily: Paul 33%, Romney 16%, Hunter 15%, &#8220;Undecided&#8221; 11%, and the rest were in single digits.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that it was a small conference, about 430 people, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Paul was not at the conference<\/span>, but Romney and Hunter <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">were<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>While a part of it might be attributed to the libertarian streak of western Republicans, I think that a lot of has to do with the fact that polling shows that most Republicans favor us leaving Iraq too.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul will not be the Republican nominee.  Some of his positions regarding &#8220;social issues&#8221; and &#8220;law and order&#8221; are out of sync with the party.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the first mainstream Republican who says, &#8220;<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">George W. Bush, Kiss My Ass, We are Leaving Iraq<\/span>&#8221; would sweep the primaries.  He might even have a chance in the general.<\/p>\n<p>But no one running has the guts to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes you read that right Paul beat Romney, and he beat him handily: Paul 33%, Romney 16%, Hunter 15%, &#8220;Undecided&#8221; 11%, and the rest were in single digits. It should be noted that it was a small conference, about 430 people, and Paul was not at the conference, but Romney and Hunter were. While a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,978,977,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}