In one Davos session, a straw poll was held: is the financial system safer now?
Later that same day, those same delegates cast their votes in a straw poll.
This weekend Romney took second in a straw poll of southern state Republican activists .
He recently got an unexpected boost when he won a straw poll in upstate New York.
While agriculture was the message, the mission was the straw poll for the candidates.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll in Ames, followed by libertarian Congressman Ron Paul.
He then failed to win majority support from the IMF in a straw poll.
But with less than two months until the Ames, Iowa Straw Poll, I wait with baited breath.
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They did a straw poll of presidential preference and Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, won that.
For many conservative activists attending CPAC, the straw poll is fun, but they don't take it too seriously.
Third, in winning the Florida straw poll, he showed organizational strategy and message can be more powerful than money.
This time around there are 23 names on the straw poll ballot, including some who were not invited to CPAC.
An online straw poll on the doctors-only Web site Sermo.com found that 94% of 10, 500 physicians polled oppose the bill.
Since the August Republican straw poll, the office has been largely vacant, with mail piling up and phones going unanswered.
The CPAC straw poll was won by libertarian favorite Rep. Ron Paul of Texas with 31%, followed by Romney with 22%.
He topped a straw poll held at the end of the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference, with 38% of the vote.
And by the way there was a straw poll, which surprisingly, was run by, won by Tennessee Senator, Bill Frist, who--the homeboy.
But there's also been plenty of criticism in recent years that the CPAC straw poll is not the indicator it once was.
Teresa Ferguson of Albertville, Alabama, sees a value in the straw poll.
There's one glaring omission from the 23 names on the straw poll ballot: Jeb Bush, who asked not to be on the list.
He came in second in a straw poll this weekend at the Values Voters Summit and he's running third in several Iowa polls.
It is more than a year since the unofficial start of the campaign the Iowa straw poll and there are still two months to go.
All along, the Forbes strategy was to show that Bush did not have the race locked up, not to win the straw poll outright.
Brad Zaun, another state senator working behind-the-scenes for Bachmann, said the campaign has a head start on Perry thanks to its straw poll efforts.
She put in several strong debate performances ahead of the GOP presidential primaries and went on to win the Iowa straw poll in August 2011.
Activist factions can disproportionately dominate a straw poll, caucus or even a closed partisan primary, but they are not remotely representative of the general electorate.
He showed off his skills playing rock-and-roll bass and surprised observers with a second-place finish in the GOP straw poll in Ames, Iowa, the following August.
As a result, it came as little surprise to this attendee that libertarian Rep. Ron Paul won 31% of the vote in the CPAC straw poll.
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