Tbogg masterfully broke down Craig Romney’s spin job on the Illinois State Fair-hosted Republican Presidential Straw Poll.
Several points:
- The point of the Craig’s post was to emphasize that DadMitt can too win a straw poll without buying all of the voters a pork sandwich and a gift card from Stuckey’s.
- This all-important vote took place over by the goat barn. Yes, the goat barn. This would explain why the voters had to get liquored up to vote.
- Craig Romney doesn’t know how to create an embedded link.
- Then there is the matter of Craig’s selective block-quoting from McDermott’s article. Here is Craig again:
“Not far from the cotton candy vendors, Illinois Republicans spun a small piece of political history at the Illinois State Fair Thursday, with a presidential straw poll that organizers hope could someday provide an Iowa-like influence in early primary campaigning.”
…The original article:
Not far from the cotton candy vendors, Illinois Republicans spun a small piece of political history at the Illinois State Fair Thursday, with a presidential straw poll that organizers hope could someday provide an Iowa-like influence in early primary campaigning.
For now, though, even the event’s boosters admit it was all fluff and little substance.
“All fluff and little substance”.
That would be the Romney campaign
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