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Pawlenty near bottom in CPAC Straw Poll

Posted at 4:04 PM on February 28, 2009 by Tom Scheck (4 Comments)

Gov. Pawlenty, who just spoke at CPAC this morning, was second to last in CPAC's annual straw poll. Pawlenty garnered two percent of the vote. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist was last with only one percent of those polled supporting him.

Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, won the poll. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was second. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Texas Congressman Ron Paul were tied for third.

You can find the results on CPAC's home page (sorry but the results are on a pop-up pdf).

Comments (4)

Somehow, I don't think John McCain won the CPAC straw poll in 2005.

Posted by Chris | February 28, 2009 4:53 PM

OK, so it's a straw poll ... that he got only 2% or roughly 34 votes, so I don't expect that will phase Pawlenty. It is unknown who the voters were ... which in the past have been on the younger side. Wouldn't the real test be how much money Pawlenty is raising in comparison to his competitors ?

And responding to Chris question, I believe in 2005 that Rudy Giuliani at 19 percent and at 18 percent was Condoleezza Rice which probably reflect their celebrity status more than anything else. At that time, college students comprised almost two-thirds of those participating in the poll. In March of 2008, Romney won again even though he had announced that he was terminating his campaign.

Posted by Minnesota Central | February 28, 2009 6:33 PM

It didn't help that the voting stopped on Friday before he spoke on Saturday.

Posted by eric | March 1, 2009 8:10 AM

"Somehow, I don't think John McCain won the CPAC straw poll in 2005."

McCain didn't win it in 2008 either, when he was the front-runner for the nomination. Romney won the poll, and used his speaking time to announce he was suspending his campaign - to a loud chorus of boos.

CPAC is the wing of the party that thinks McCain lost because he wasn't conservative enough.

Why they are so enamored with a former gov of Massachusetts who allegedly left the state in disarray is a mystery to me.

Posted by bsimon | March 2, 2009 12:09 PM

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