June 15, 2003
Wisconsin Straw Poll. Survey Says...
Wisconsin Democratic Party Straw Poll.
If this happened in Madison, it might have been Kucinich.
Even though the DNC thinks straw polls are a distraction, I guess any publicity is good publicity.
Posted by grover at June 15, 2003 09:48 PMNot sure why this doesn’t mean anything - I thought everybody read The Hotline. So Dean wins the Wisconsin straw poll. Not sure why, but I just think it’s funny to say “Wisconsin Straw Poll.” And I wonder why the DNC would bother to send an “official” letter urging delegates not to vote. No faster way to give something credence or interest a reporter or two.
Posted by: 9thwave at June 15, 2003 10:58 PMIt doesn’t mean anything because the candidates all sent out letters asking their supporters to skip the straw polls, as did the sponsors of the event, so a large majority of the people at the convention didn’t participate. My candidate is first among the unruly folks who don’t listen to him or the event organizers, whoop-te-do.
Posted by: Dan Wylie-Sears at June 16, 2003 02:58 AMWhile the poll means nearly nothing, it did get Dean a mention on the ABC and CBS evening news and ABC’s This Week. It helped Dean.
Posted by: Colin at June 16, 2003 09:26 AMGood point. Any publicity is good publicity. Frequent updates to the horse race are good for the party imo, because they get the primary into the news and give the apolitical majority the impression that there is a Democratic Party out there.
Posted by: Dan Wylie-Sears at June 16, 2003 05:01 PMMeans nothing? Baloney!
What it means is that the DNC has a front-running dark horse. People are responding to the message of Dean because it is not the recycled GOP message of Joe L, Kerry or Edwards.
The DNC better start embracing true-Democrats, or that Third Party blog is going to grow pretty fast.
Note to DNC:
I don’t like Bush. I want a Democrat I can vote for who will not be Bush-Lite.
Posted by: RD at June 16, 2003 05:12 PM
