The Spin And I

From a Giuliani campaign aide in re: the values voters straw poll:

"I saw this thing a bit different – i.e., among those in attendance, the Mayor was only 17 votes behind Fred and only 39 votes behind Romney, who got a shout-out for organizing folks to pay $1 and vote online."

Me:

Noted -- and Giuliani seemed to be well received, and this column, for one, has never understated Giuliani's support among evangelicals. But organizing the heck out of these things is what Romney has to do, and one can't begrudge him a headline if he wins. That said, if it turns out that Romney paid people to sign up, then i'd be more sympathetic.

Comments

So Romney and Thompson are almost as hated as Giuliani?
Great spin for the Giuliani believers...

(Without the online voters Romney still got 65% more votes than Giuliani)

Posted by Eric XT | October 20, 2007 8:16 PM

I am one of those Romney voters who voted online.

I'm certainly a values voter, and there is no way the campaign Paide me to vote online. I did it because he stands for what I believe, and represents true conservative values.

So, other campaigns and MSM should quit downplaying this straw poll. He won because peple believe in him... the same reason he's going to win this primary.

Posted by Brad | October 20, 2007 8:40 PM

Romney is a unprincipled panderer who blows with the wind and wins straw polls by paying money to the voters.

Thomson is a tired, old, clueless man.

Giuliani is a cross-dressing leftist.

Only viable conservatives are Paul and Huckabee.

Posted by ap | October 20, 2007 11:02 PM

Checkout how awful Thomson is..

Thompson's tendency to look down and read his remarks provided the audience with some of the most prolonged views of the top of a bald politician's head in recent history. When you feel compelled to use an index card for lines like, 'We must have good laws. We must do our best to stop bad laws,' you have been spending too much of your life filming 30-second bits of dialogue.

[Thompson] spoke with his chin often buried in his chest, his voice largely monotone, and he cleared his throat or coughed repeatedly, prompting some to wonder if he might be ill.

"He didn't look good," said Ronald Sell, 63, a musician from New York City.

Mr. Sell said he initially had high hopes for Mr. Thompson but left disappointed and wondering why as an actor, Mr. Thompson did not "at least have his lines memorized."

"If he was the candidate, we'd be in trouble," Mr. Sell said.

Posted by qm | October 20, 2007 11:04 PM

Flipflopper's wife Ann Romney says that she hates going to church for three hours!

"I'm still adjusting because I don't like going to church for three hours every Sunday. That's rough!"

-- Ann Romney, to NBC/National Journal, 10/18.

Posted by ValueVoter | October 20, 2007 11:08 PM

Talk about skewing the vote results!

There are three facts that are being left out that spins the story.

The on site voting polls were closed down after Romney's speech and opened back up after Huckabee's speech the next day. That means those who came to support and listen to Huckabee were able to vote on site. Those who came to listen to and support Romney the day before were not.

There were many more attendees at the event than voted on site. A lot of folks who attended voted online with their laptops and other electronic hand helds. The non-progressive folks waited in line to vote.

The organization that sent out the emails urging people to vote online was the community "Evangelicals for Mitt". Romney's own campaign did not do that, duh he has an 80,000 donor base, if he had solicited online votes the would have blitzed the online voting.

Posted by Shawnie | October 21, 2007 11:06 AM