NEW STRAW POLL OUT

GARY BLACK 544,555,555,556,789.00

MICKEY MOUSE 11

MINNIE MOUSE 12

REALITY ZERO

THE STRAW JUST BROKE GARY——–THE REAL PEOPLE OF GEORGIA WILL VOTE YOU AND TOMMY IRVIN OUT AND REAL REPUBLICANS IN

I see a trend. First, Gwinnett (56% for Ralph), then Cobb (64% for Ralph), finally July 18th (might even be unanimous for Ralph!)

Probably not, Cagle will get his wife vote. Or will he? Is she campaigning for him or staying out of it?

Did everyone see the liberal paper “Macon Democrat” endorsements today. I think it shows the true colors of Republicans they endorsed.

Reed was greated in the parade and in both metro county events like a rock star. Cagle is still unknown to a lot of people.

I think the Cagle team still does not get it. For them it has been about tearing down Reed and about using the liberal media to do that for them.

But the hard “Rs” who are going to vote in this primary know Reed. And their view of him is not going to be shaped by the liberal press or even attack ads on TV. Of course it will peal away a few, but I doubt it will be enough.

Cagle has wasted a year in which he should have been introducing himself to this group. In the end it will not be enough to not be Ralph Reed. That will be the fatal flaw of the Cagle campaign in the end.

Clint Day and Mitch Skandalakis (Reed’s client) were in a heated runoff and Clint Day won a big straw poll and sent out all kinds of press releases and made a big to-do about it.

Mitch beat Clint pretty handily in the actual run-off. No straws voted.

I think you are correct in that Ralph has the stronger base. The LG race is going to come down to turnout, higher turnout helps Casey and lower turnout helps Ralph. Just my opinion.

Gary Black just keeps picking up ground. The same AG people that have helped propel Irvin to victory all these years are now supporting Gary. Look for another upset similar to Tom Murphy’s upset once Gary secures the GOP nomination.

Karen keeps rolling on. GOP voters know and like Karen and don’t believe the negative campaign being run against her.

The bottom line is that there were still a lot of voters undecided in many of the races. There were almost 1,100 in attendance and look at the number of votes cast.

I know both Reed and Cagle had called people and urged them to come vote in the straw poll for them.

I was amazed at the number of voters that did not know anything about the candidates in other races. A lot of people were asking their friends how to vote.

Here are the results for the questions. The questions were on the back side of the ballot so voters skipped over some of the candidates and voted particularly for the question on guest workers.

Questions Do you support the Guest Worker Program for illegal aliens?
Y 168 No 286
Do you think SPLOSTs should only be held in general elections so as to maximize voter participation?
Y 289 No 59
Do you support the Fair Tax Plan?
Y 315 No 33
Do you think the Cobb School term of office should be decreased from 4 years to 2 years to insure accountability?
Y 175 No 158

Bill, I don’t know where you get your information from, but we only included statewide races and no district races.
There are three congressional districts in Cobb, and it would have been logistically impossible to determine who is in the different districts. For that same reason, we did not vote on either the school board races or the county commission races.

Also, my buddy in Paulding County was in Douglasville yesterday for their big parade. Said Gary Black had a great showing there with a truck, tractor and a bunch of folks handing out fliers and peanuts. He said there were also lots of Sonny signs.

I found Brent’s numbers interesting as well. Especially since Chuck is a State Rep. You would think an incumbent State Rep who is one county over could garner more support among Republican activists then 18%. At 18% you have to wonder how much of that number is simply folks who don’t know either candidate simply “throwing a dart” to make their choice.

The questions were on the back of the ballot and you had over 450 that responded to question 1 on guest worker program. It is clear voters skipped over certain races and then turned the ballot over to vote on the questions. Jack s, you already know that because you responded to the reulsts on prevcious thread. Facts mean nothing to you.

There were people there from all over this area.

At 82%, Brent won the second-largest percentage vote of any candidate running for any race statewide.

It’s doubly-interesting given that Cobb is geographically right next to Cherokee, Scheid’s home county. If he’s not winning the Republican regulars over there, it’s probably a good bet that he’s not winning them over anywhere.

Straw polls don’t mean everything, Bam. But they sometimes do mean something, especially in landslides. And in this case, I do think they mean something for Brown.

Facts have it that Tom Price SPECIFICALLY requested the Cobb GOP to NOT put his race against Konop on the straw-poll ballot.

Price must be quite worried about how he “measures-up” in Cobb County.