This is a list of straw polls that have been conducted relating to the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries.
Total Straw Poll Victories is as follows:
The number of Straw Poll victories after voting started is as follows:
Results from the 2011 New Hampshire Straw Poll were as follows:
Results from the 2011 CPAC Straw Poll were as follows:
Results from the 2011 Tea Party Straw Poll were as follows:
Results from the 2011 Dorchester Conference Straw Poll were as follows:
Results from the 2011 National League of Cities Straw Poll were as follows:
The "50 or so votes" referenced in all articles on this ballot can only mean that there were either 32 or 64 votes given the percentages above (i.e. 3% of the vote is either 1 vote or 2 votes). Human estimation tendencies would lean towards the real answer being 64 votes.
Republican Liberty Caucus straw poll at the 2011 California Republican convention:
Finishing with less than ten votes were, in order, John R. Bolton (8), Gary Johnson (7), Herman Cain (5), Haley Barbour (4), Rick Santorum (4), Jon Huntsman, Jr. (3), Donald Trump (3), Chris Christie (2), Jim DeMint (2), Marco Rubio (2), Scott Walker (2), Paul Ryan (1), Colin Powell (1), Allen West (1), Tom McClintock (1), Dana Perino (1), and None of the Above (1).
Karger wins St. Anselm straw poll
South Carolina straw poll as part of the Grassroots SC campaign:
Also appearing on the ballot but failing to get more than 5% were, in alphabetical order, Haley Barbour, John R. Bolton, Herman Cain, Mitch Daniels, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Gary Johnson, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum.
Source of results: CNN
Georgia straw poll as part of the 3rd District Republican convention:
Arithmetic shows 59 votes were canvassed in the straw poll (all rounded-percentages above are multiples of 1.69%).
Source of results: Republican Leadership Conference
Source of results: Politico
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Source of results: Washington Examiner and National Journal
The day after the poll, on August 14, Tim Pawlenty announced his withdrawal from the race after his third-place finish.
Rick Perry, who was not on the poll ballot and only appeared as a write-in candidate, formally announced his candidacy while in South Carolina on the same day that the poll took place.
In June, two months before the poll, presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who had won the 2007 Ames Straw Poll, announced that he would skip the 2011 Ames Straw Poll.
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Source of results: Hampton-NorthHamptonPatch
Source of results: Politico
Source of results: Republican Party of Maryland
A straw poll was held at the September 12 Republican debate, to find out who the debate audience thought were the front runners, both before and after the debate. Before the debate, Ron Paul came first, Rick Perry came second, and Michele Bachmann came third. After the debate, Ron Paul was still first, Michele Bachmann came second, and Herman Cain came third. CNN have not released the full results of this poll, instead holding an online poll which omitted Ron Paul from the choices. The winner of the online poll was Mitt Romney.
Former senator Rick Santorum won first place in a straw poll among Pennsylvania Republicans, winning 36% of the vote. Governor Mitt Romney won 25%, and Governor Rick Perry won 18%.
The California Republican Party held a straw poll in mid-September 2011, which was won by Ron Paul. The full results were:
Source of results: Politico
The Florida Republican Party held a straw poll at the end of September 2011, which was won by Herman Cain. Political analysts attributed Cain's win to Perry's poor debate performances, but others pointed to the fact that Cain won the Florida straw poll after campaigning in-person throughout the state more than Perry.
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The vote for Obama was attributed to a vote by one of the media members present for the event by the announcer.
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Note: the percentages only add to 83.5% because results for 3 contenders (likely Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and Gary Johnson) are unknown, but they polled somewhere in between Romney and Bachmann.
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Source of results: <br /> According to KSFY/ABC "dozens" of people participated in this straw poll. No definitive number was given.
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Note: This was an unusual straw poll in which voter's preferences were matched against each other for five rounds, with the less popular candidate being removed at each stage. There were initially 6 available choices, which were whittled down to two, with the final result being as shown above.
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Results from the 2011 Drake University Straw Poll were as follows:
The poll was distributed to Drake students via email to coincide with the December 10 Republican presidential debate, held on campus.
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Note: Rick Perry's campaign asked not to be included on Straw Poll Ballot.
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