I’ve been away for a few days, but I couldn’t let the fact go by that the surge is working. The Duncan Hunter surge, that is.
California congressman Duncan Hunter won Texas’ first Republican Party Straw Poll on Saturday in a low-turnout event that lacked the top-tier presidential candidates.
Hunter got 534 votes, or 41 percent of the vote. Former Tennessee senator and actor Fred Thompson, who is expected to announce his candidacy next week but was not at the event, came in second with 266 votes, or nearly 21 percent. Texas congressman Ron Paul came in third with 217 votes, or 17 percent.
534 people in Texas are buying what Dunc’s selling. You tell me this man can’t walk into the White House now.
This was actually my favorite part.
Crowd support seemed split between Hunter and Paul, whose supporters waved signs and chanted his name throughout the day. Other candidates attending were Chicago businessman John Cox, who got 10 votes; counterterrorism expert Hugh Cort of Birmingham, Ala., who got three votes; and tool-and-die maker Ray McKinney of Savannah, Ga., with 28 votes.
Ray McKinney is the Tin Cup of this race. He slayed the mighty John Cox dragon. (Seriously, 10? 10 votes?)
5 Responses to “Dunc-mentum”
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) or U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) would be better, but U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) would also make a great President!
We need a real conservative in the White House, unlike what we have now.
Something to say?
Tin cup or not, you have to admit for someone that NO ONE had ever heard of before, having NO delegats, spending nada on campaigning in Texas, and having no campaign manager that I did not do to shabby placing 7th out of 12. Texas was GREAT!!
Left by Ray McKinney
September 4, 2007 at 7:53am