Already stealing the vote - Students stuff ballots for Romney at CPAC

[ck4829]

The year’s CPAC event was pretty much like every other CPAC: candidates pandered, right-wing speakers launched crazy accusations, a vibe of general weirdness pervaded … and Ann Coulter said something predictably moronic.

But everything appears to have worked out for Gov. Mitt Romney, who was so committed to winning CPAC’s meaningless straw poll that his campaign brought in some 225 students to stuff the ballot box. And it paid off, with Romney winning 21 percent of the 1,705 votes cast, meaning Romney received 359 votes.

So, ignoring the 225 votes Romney bought and paid for, he received only 134 votes among other 1480 cast, giving him just over 9% - less than Giuliani (17%), Brownback (15%), Gingrich (14%), and McCain (12%).

Considering that Gingrich isn’t even an announced candidate and McCain openly snubbed the event, Romney’s “victory” appears to have been anything but.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/03/rigging_the_vot.html

[dkofos]

1. He is such a joke

How did he become the Gov of Mass.??

[SoCalDem]

2. He's "good-looking"?

and his wife's pretty?

[dkofos]

4. Are you telling me he won a popularity contest?

Shame on those liberals in MASS.

I thought they were better than that.

They may have come to their senses in the last election tho.

There is hope!

[billybob537]

3. He cheated of course.

[dkofos]

5. That's what I thought

[gratuitous]

6. Ah, another young Republican prank

Where would the next generation of slime merchants in the mold of Donald Segretti, Lee Atwater and Karl Rove come from if they didn't cut their teeth on a little old-fashioned ballot box stuffing? It's only a short bus ride from there to character assassination, planted stories, and even real assassination.

[Sammy Pepys]

7. eh...big whoop...

They essentially "DUed" a meaningless poll...we do that all the time! :D