Ron Paul got a great birthday present Saturday, as the 76-year-old defeated 11 other Republicans in Saturday's New Hampshire Young Republicans Straw Poll.
Paul, a congressman from Texas, won a commanding 45 percent of the vote and bested runner-up Mitt Romney by 35 percent despite not attending the event, which was held in New Castle and also included a lobster bake.
There were 302 ballots cast Saturday, and the full vote results are as follows, in the order the candidates were listed on the ballot:
Jon Huntsman - 3 percent ;
Herman Cain - 5 percent;
Rick Perry - 8 percent;
Fred Karger - 0 percent ;
Paul - 45 percent;
Mitt Romney - 10 percent;
Thaddeus McCotter - 8 percent;
Rick Santorum - 3 percent;
Michele Bachmann - 5 percent;
Buddy Roemer - 3 percent;
Gary Johnson - 6 percent;
and Newt Gingrich - 1 percent.
It appears that as we go farther east, Dominionism does not have quite the same cachet as it did in Iowa.
As you can see Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum barely caused a ripple.
Of course as we well know NONE of these straw polls really mean a damn thing. However I think it is worth noting whose name received too few votes to even deserve mention in BOTH contests.
It seems like the whole country is pretty much over Snowdrift Snooki, with the exception of those poor souls trapped on that rocky outcropping in the middle of the Sea O'Pee.
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