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May 16, 2007
Fox News Text Poll
For the Republican presidential candidates' debate Wednesday night, Fox News conducted an "American Idol"-like poll that encouraged people to vote via mobile phone text message as to what candidate they thought had won.
Here's the result:
29% - Mitt Romney
25% - Ron Paul
19% - Rudy Giuliani
9% - Mike Hukabee
5% - Duncan Hunter
4% - John McCain
3% - Tom Tancredo
1% - Sam Brownbeck
0% - Jim Gilmore
0% - Tommy Thompson
About 40,000 people voted, but what does it mean?
First, those who are likely to vote via text message are probably younger--those in the "American Idol" generation, with about the same depth. Thus, it is reasonable that the best-looking candidate won, that the only Republican anti-war candidate came in second, and that the only Republican pro-choice candidate came in third. All the others were probably within the margin of error and thus tied for last.
I wonder how McCain feels being in the margin for error?
Posted by Charles Warner at May 16, 2007 02:31 PM
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