Pence wins Values Voter Summit straw poll

[Mr. Morden]

The next major 2012 presidential candidate "cattle call" will be the Family Research Council-hosted "Values Voter Summit", to be held on Sept. 17-19 in DC.  DeMint, Santorum, Bachmann, Pence, McDonnell, Huckabee, and Romney are all scheduled to speak, with Pawlenty also speaking via video:

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/09/huckabee_faces.php

Last year's event included a straw poll, which was won by Huckabee.  This list of names on this year's straw poll has been released:

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Odd list.  Brewer and Rubio are included, but not Barbour or Thune?

Update: Pence wins:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2010/09/18/mike-pence-wins-values-voters-presidential-straw-poll.aspx

1. Mike Pence 24%
2. Mike Huckabee 22%
3. Mitt Romney 13%
4. Newt Gingrich 10%
5. Sarah Palin 7%
6. Rick Santorum 5%
6. Jim DeMint 5%
8. Bobby Jindal 2%
8. Mitch Daniels 2%
8. John Thune 2%
11. McDonnell 1%
11. Rubio 1%
11. Ryan 1%
11. Barbour 1%
11. Paul 1%
16. Brewer 0.1% (1 vote)
Undecided 2%

"The ballot also included a vice presidential question, which Pence also won, with Palin coming in second."

[pbrower2a]

The next major 2012 presidential candidate "cattle call" will be the Family Research Council-hosted "Values Voter Summit", to be held on Sept. 17-19 in DC.  DeMint, Santorum, Bachmann, Pence, McDonnell, Huckabee, and Romney are all scheduled to speak, with Pawlenty also speaking via video:

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/09/huckabee_faces.php

Last year's event included a straw poll, which was won by Huckabee.  This list of names on this year's straw poll has been released:

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Odd list.  Brewer and Rubio are included, but not Barbour or Thune?

"Values voters" -- people who vote against abortion but have no problem with an economy hostile to helpless children.

[tpfkaw]

Most likely a win for Huckabee again, with the smaller likelihood of a Ron Paul upset.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

I expect Mike to win this again.

[Poundingtherock]

Palin is not attending.  She's in Iowa that night.

[California8429]

The next major 2012 presidential candidate "cattle call" will be the Family Research Council-hosted "Values Voter Summit", to be held on Sept. 17-19 in DC.  DeMint, Santorum, Bachmann, Pence, McDonnell, Huckabee, and Romney are all scheduled to speak, with Pawlenty also speaking via video:

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/09/huckabee_faces.php

Last year's event included a straw poll, which was won by Huckabee.  This list of names on this year's straw poll has been released:

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Odd list.  Brewer and Rubio are included, but not Barbour or Thune?

Looks like they don't know what they're talking about

[Mr. Morden]

Barbour and Thune's names have been added to the straw poll ballot.  Also, Pawlenty's name has been removed at his request:

link

He'll be on a trade trip to China at the time of the conference, and he presumably doesn't want to be embarrassed by a poor showing in the straw poll.

[Eraserhead]

Pawlenty is a wuss.

[Mr. Morden]

Btw, the straw poll results will be released on Saturday at 3:15pm, according to this schedule:

http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/schedule

[Mr. Morden]

Fwiw, all of the prospective 2012ers who are speaking at this thing have delivered their speeches now (except Gingrich), and the buzz is that DeMint and Pence got the best receptions of anyone from the people attending the meeting:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/09/demint-outshines-huckabee-at-values-voter-summit/63163/

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/09/values-voters-go-gaga-for-mike-pence/63169/

Whether that'll actually translate into support in the straw poll, I don't know.

[California8429]

1. Pence
2. Huckabee
3.
4. Gingrich
5. Palin

VP

1. Pence
2. Palin
3. Santorum
4. DeMint
5. Huckabee

I believe this is correct if I remember the results, I only caught it for a moment

[tpfkaw]

Pence - 24%
Huckabee - (22%)
Romney - (13%)
Gingrich - (10%)
Palin - (7%)

Wonder what this will do to the Intrade rankings of Pence and Huckabee . . .

[tmthforu94]

Pence - 24%
Huckabee - (22%)
Romney - (13%)
Gingrich - (10%)
Palin - (7%)

Wonder what this will do to the Intrade rankings of Pence and Huckabee . . .

Whew, when I didn't see Romney even on Top 5, I was getting worried. Thank heavens he was at least third! Not bad considering the people who were voting in this. What makes me even more happy is that only 7% voted for Palin.

[Yelnoc]

Pence must have given a very good speech.

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2010/09/18/mike-pence-wins-values-voters-presidential-straw-poll.aspx

1. Mike Pence 24%
2. Mike Huckabee 22%
3. Mitt Romney 13%
4. Newt Gingrich 10%
5. Sarah Palin 7%
6. Rick Santorum 5%
6. Jim DeMint 5%
8. Bobby Jindal 2%
8. Mitch Daniels 2%
8. John Thune 2%
11. McDonnell 1%
11. Rubio 1%
11. Ryan 1%
11. Barbour 1%
11. Paul 1%
16. Brewer 0.1% (1 vote)
Undecided 2%

Weigel writes:

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[Beet]

How much of this is determined by who actually showed up? Who are these activists anyway? If they don't represent the tea party this poll is worthless.

[tpfkaw]

Pence - 24%
Huckabee - (22%)
Romney - (13%)
Gingrich - (10%)
Palin - (7%)

Wonder what this will do to the Intrade rankings of Pence and Huckabee . . .

Whew, when I didn't see Romney even on Top 5, I was getting worried. Thank heavens he was at least third! Not bad considering the people who were voting in this. What makes me even more happy is that only 7% voted for Palin.

You can take my word for it that Romney is one of the worst governors Massachusetts has had within living memory, and he'd be an equally awful president.  That's not my ideology speaking - I nearly always prefer Republican governors - he was just objectively an awful governor.

[Poundingtherock]

Palin didn't attend the event.

[Bull Moose Base]

I've been talking up Pence's primary chances for a while, because of his tarp opposition and strong appeal to social cons and tea crazies.  I could see him winning Iowa but  he'll almost definitely not run if Daniels jumps in.

[Capitan Zapp Brannigan]

Tony Perkins on Sarah Palin according to Politico:

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0910/Perkins_Palin_more_of_a_cheerleader_.html?showall

This was in response to the straw poll. Ouch.

[Mr. Morden]

TPM has the full list of presidential and vice presidential preference, along with top issues:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/mike-pence-sweeps-straw-poll-voting-at-values-voter-summit.php

Presidential Poll

1. Mike Pence (24%)
2. Mike Huckabee (22%)
3. Mitt Romney (13%)
4. Newt Gingrich (10%)
5. Sarah Palin (7%)
6. Rick Santorum (5%)
7. Jim DeMint (5%)
8. Bobby Jindal (2%)
9. Mitch Daniels (2%)
10. Chris Christie (2%)
11. John Thune (2%)
12. Bob McDonnell (1%)
13. Marco Rubio (1%)
14. Paul Ryan (1%)
15. Haley Barbour (1%)
16. Ron Paul (1%)
17. Jan Brewer (1%)

Vice-Presidential Poll

1. Mike Pence (16%)
2. Sarah Palin (15%)
3. Rick Santorum (10%)
4. Paul Ryan (7%)
5. Jim DeMint (6%)
6. Mike Huckabee (6%)
7. Marco Rubio (6%)
8. Bobby Jindal (6%)
9. Bob McDonnell (4%)
10. Chris Christie (3%)
11. Mitt Romney (3%)
12. Newt Gingrich (3%)
13. Jan Brewer (3%)
14. John Thune (2%)
15. Mitch Daniels (1%)
16. Haley Barbour (1%)
17. Ron Paul (1%)

Top Five Issues

1. Abortion
2. Government spending
3. Repeal of Obamacare
4. Protection of religious liberty
5. National Security

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Doesn't matter; these "Values Voters" are out of touch with the direction of the country and the tea party movement. After voting to end "don't ask, don't tell", Ron Paul obviously wasn't going to do well here.

[exopolitician]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2010/09/18/mike-pence-wins-values-voters-presidential-straw-poll.aspx

1. Mike Pence 24%
2. Mike Huckabee 22%
3. Mitt Romney 13%
4. Newt Gingrich 10%
5. Sarah Palin 7%
6. Rick Santorum 5%
6. Jim DeMint 5%
8. Bobby Jindal 2%
8. Mitch Daniels 2%
8. John Thune 2%
11. McDonnell 1%
11. Rubio 1%
11. Ryan 1%
11. Barbour 1%
11. Paul 1%
16. Brewer 0.1% (1 vote)
Undecided 2%

womp womp.

[??????????]

Rubio may be a good choice if things fall together right.

[Lief 🗽]

Seriously, Mike Pence? He is undoubtedly one of the stupidest members of Congress. Listen to him do an interview or something; there's nothing up there.