This is big news! Hillary Clinton has won a South Carolina straw poll.
From TheState.com:
Richland County Democrats held the nation’s first straw poll for the 2008 presidential race Wednesday and the surprise winner was U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York.
“We’re simply delighted,” said Bob Kunst, president of Hillarynow.com, who is traveling the country promoting Clinton’s candidacy.
“This should help us in our effort. It gives us a nice boost.”
Clinton’s victory at the sparesely attended event was a mild upset. Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, a native South Carolinian and last year’s Democratic vice presidential candidate, had been considered the favorite.
Richland County is South Carolina's most Democratic county, as well as the state's second-most populous.
Hillary supporters put a lot of effort into getting their voters to the Richland County Democratic party’s event.
The vote tally is quite impressive.
Clinton got 44 votes to 34 for Edwards. Virginia Gov. John Warner came in third with 32 votes and U.S. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware got 24 votes.
Everyone else scored in the single digits.
Wow.
Richland is the second-most populous county in South Carolina and they only managed to get 134 people (plus the unreported number of those whose choice scored in the single digits) to participate in the straw poll.
That's not a very large sample from which to draw conclusions about the 2008 race. I don't know why Kunst is so "delighted."
Jennifer Wilbanks, the runaway bride, invited 600 people to her wedding! You'd think Richland County Dems could have matched that.
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Hillary in a Landslide
Posted by Mary at 6/16/2005 02:03:00 PM
Labels: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden
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