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Romney Wins 2009 CPAC Straw Poll... Preemptively Loses 2012?
WASHINGTON D.C. -- After conceding at the annual gathering only a year earlier, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney serendipitously eked out a symbolic victory in the Conservative Political Action Convention's (CPAC) presidential straw poll, held here on Saturday.According to Politico, Romney, who received only 20 percent of the CPAC vote, was closely trailed by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (14 percent), Texas Rep. Ron Paul (13 percent), Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (13 percent), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (10 percent) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (7 percent). Also on the ballot were South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. Despite the wide array of choices, however, nine percent of CPAC attendants said they were undecided.
Yet, this is hardly Romney's first CPAC straw poll win -- in fact, in 2007 and 2008, the former Massachusetts governor trounced his competition, including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who the party inevitably nominated.
Luckily for Romney, he is not the only GOP candidate to have lost a general election despite an impressive CPAC poll victory. Rather, he conforms to a historic norm, one whereby the winner of the conference's symbolic poll rarely reaches the general election:
| Poll year | CPAC poll winner |
Winner's political future |
| 2008 | 2007 |
Mitt Romney | Ironically conceded at CPAC in 2008 |
| 2006 | 2005 | Sen. George Allen, R-Va. | Defeated by Dem. challenger Jim Webb in 2006 Virginia Senate race |
| 2004-2001 | GOP held White House | |
| 2000 | George W. Bush | Won presidency |
| 1999 | Former Undersecretary of Education Gary Bauer | Dropped out after New Hampshire primary |
| 1998 | Steve Forbes | Won only two delegates in 1996, dropped out after taking 3rd in Delaware in 2000 |
| 1995 | Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Tx | Received less than 1 percent of the 1996 presidential primary vote; joined 2008 McCain campaign |
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Mike Sciotto
10:22AM 10:22AM Mar 1st 2009
I'm on board the RMNEY REVOLUTION and reminding people there are 1,421 DAYS TO GO! ROMNEY/JINDAL '12!
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Annika
8:47PM 8:47PM Mar 1st 2009
Romney is the quintesential candidate. Perfect in every way for the job. If we would just stick by him all the way this time , the Repubs can take back the country before all is lost to Socialism.
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Wynter Baby
4:00PM 4:00PM Mar 2nd 2009
He needs to consider his very sick wife Ann who has multiple sclerosis and now cancer too ! (I believe cancer runs in her family, both sides).
The campaign trail really does not help anyone's health.
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Le WIlhelm
2:44AM 2:44AM Mar 2nd 2009
Frankly Obama would have beaten him, but Romney would have made the best President, far better than Mccain and better than Obama, I suspect. But all the middle-aged females and college youth would have elected Obama. It is a shame however, that he was not the candidate, even if he carried fewer states than McCain, because many of us who did not vote this election would have. Becaue of his conservative stance. In my case "NO", but instead because I think he understands finances and the economy better than the other choices. Romney may be too traditionally handsome to win. He may look too Presidential. The younth and older women don't want that.
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nick
9:45AM 9:45AM Mar 2nd 2009
This is the only guy that was running that knew anything about business and had run a business, all that experience and if it wasn't for the Huckerter he would have been the guy and I think would have taken out the boy wonder obama. Now look what we got Obama Chavez running the country in the ground, along with two nuts in Congress, Pelosi and Dingy Harry Reid.
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Beth
10:48AM 10:48AM Mar 2nd 2009
I thought that Mitt Romney was the best man for the job back during the primaries last year. What a shame. He is the quintessential candidate indeed. He has it all. He is a true Conservative, with some moderate ties....He has Gubernatorial experience as a Republican Governor in Massachusetts, (come on folks...in (D) Ted Kennedy's State), he has foreign policy experience, working with other countries to recover the Olympics, he has worked on developing a state-run healthcare program...and his experience in Budgeting is also present... Why didn't we like this guy last year?????
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Beth
10:50AM 10:50AM Mar 2nd 2009
I thought that Mitt Romney was the best man for the job back during the primaries last year. What a shame. He is the quintessential candidate indeed. He has it all. He is a true Conservative, with some moderate ties....He has Gubernatorial experience as a Republican Governor in Massachusetts, (come on olks...in (D) Ted Kennedy's State), he has foreign policy experience, working with other countries to recover the Olympics, he has worked on developing a
state-run healthcare program...and his experience in Budgeting is also present... Why didn't we like this guy last year?????
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mw
2:20PM 2:20PM Mar 2nd 2009
Will he be able to defeat the 4.5 billion given to ACORN in the stimulus package? It's there in black and white.
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me
2:23PM 2:23PM Mar 2nd 2009
He'll know more of what to do than what is going on now.
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Robert C Delude
3:31PM 3:31PM Mar 2nd 2009
If you can't be corrupted, the parties (republocrats) will not nominate you.
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maximus
2:21AM 2:21AM Mar 3rd 2009
Mitt would have been a better pick...he knows a lot more about how to generate money than obama... and money seems to be the problem.
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