California Congressman Duncan Hunter wins Texas' first GOP straw poll

[Kadie]

Sept. 1, 2007, 6:40PM
Hunter wins Texas' first GOP straw poll


By ANGELA K. BROWN
Associated Press

FORT WORTH, Texas — California congressman Duncan Hunter won Texas' first Republican Party Straw Poll on Saturday in a low-turnout event that lacked the top-tier presidential candidates.

Hunter got 534 votes, or 41 percent of the vote. Former Tennessee senator and actor Fred Thompson, who is expected to announce his candidacy next week but was not at the event, came in second with 266 votes, or nearly 21 percent. Texas congressman Ron Paul came in third with 217 votes, or 17 percent.

Crowd support seemed split between Hunter and Paul, whose grass-roots supporters waved signs and chanted his name throughout the day. Other candidates attending were Chicago businessman John Cox, who got 10 votes; counterterrorism expert Hugh Cort of Birmingham, Ala., who got three votes; and tool-and-die maker Ray McKinney of Savannah, Ga., with 28 votes.

Each of the other absent but better-known candidates received less than 7 percent of the vote. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee came in fourth with 83 votes; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani got 78 votes; former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney received 61 votes; and Arizona Sen. John McCain garnered eight votes.

Others who didn't attend, Kansas senator Sam Brownback and Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo, each received six votes.

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[Webster Green]

1. Hunter is a true Nazi..

Not surprising that Texas repukes would love him.

[aquart]

2. Duncan Hunter?

THIS Duncan Hunter?

<http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/06/duncan_hunter_t.html>

Do the Republicans have no one who is not a minute from an indictment?

[Initech]

3. Cool, now the GOP finally found someone as batshit insane as Bush!

Will they make him become a cowboy and take over W's Crawford ranch?

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Wow amazing