While agriculture was the message, the mission was the straw poll for the candidates.
For many conservative activists attending CPAC, the straw poll is fun, but they don't take it too seriously.
This time around there are 23 names on the straw poll ballot, including some who were not invited to CPAC.
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.
All along, the Forbes strategy was to show that Bush did not have the race locked up, not to win the straw poll outright.
She has to get out from behind the talking points, stop listening to her national people and really become the grass-roots conservative revolutionary that won the straw poll.
Unfortunately, the evidence that libertarian impulses were ascendant at CPAC was not only to be found in the straw poll victory of their exemplar, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.
The same order of top three finishers in the straw poll were the same order as the top three finishers in the national poll, and so to those skeptics who were concerned about the accuracy of the straw poll, the national poll provided empirical evidence that it was a pretty good representative sample of what's going on.
But there's also been plenty of criticism in recent years that the CPAC straw poll is not the indicator it once was.
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.
Since the August Republican straw poll, the office has been largely vacant, with mail piling up and phones going unanswered.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll in Ames, followed by libertarian Congressman Ron Paul.
Third, in winning the Florida straw poll, he showed organizational strategy and message can be more powerful than money.
The CPAC straw poll was won by libertarian favorite Rep. Ron Paul of Texas with 31%, followed by Romney with 22%.
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.
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.
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.
Her decision to run in the GOP presidential primaries gave her a brief jolt in the summer of 2011, when she put in several strong debate performances and went on to win the Iowa straw poll that August.
Those efforts paid dividends this year, with Paul coming in second at the recent Ames Straw Poll just behind Michele Bachmann, who invested in shrewdly integrating digital boots on the ground to her overall, successful push in Iowa.
The Iowa Republican Party, which is hosting its straw poll in the city of Ames this weekend, is waiting to see what New Hampshire decides before announcing a date for its caucuses.
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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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John Kline, a Bachmann volunteer who attended the Des Moines tea party rally this week, said he has been working phone banks for the candidate in the weeks since her straw poll victory.
An online straw poll on the doctors-only Web site Sermo.com found that 94% of 10, 500 physicians polled oppose the bill.
And by the way there was a straw poll, which surprisingly, was run by, won by Tennessee Senator, Bill Frist, who--the homeboy.
In an unscientific straw poll at the Martyrs' Memorial this week, students, tourists and even an Oxford don chaining up her bicycle (sturdy frame, wicker basket) could not say what it commemorated.
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