Journalists are frigging MORANS

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

On the one hand this is good because Huckabee is much scarier than Romney to me, but if anyone is wondering how Bush got a mandate from losing the 2000 election, this explains it all. Romney beat Huckabee by 30 votes. That's thirty (3-0) votes in a 6,000 vote STRAW POLL... a popularity contest that carries no prize for winning. (Not even a tiara)

Obviously, Romney and Huckabee were TIED for all practical purposes having to do with who was popular with the audience, but Huckabee is not even mentioned in the first two paragraphs of the article. Flip sixteen votes out of 6,000 and the story would be about Romney's shocking loss. They do everything as a sports story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071020/pl_nm/usa_giuliani_conservatives_dc_4

Giuliani woos religious right but loses poll

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney narrowly won a Republican presidential straw poll of Christian conservatives on Saturday, while Rudy Giuliani persuaded few to look past his support of abortion rights.

The poll at a summit of self-styled values voters was largely symbolic but highlighted the continuing failure of ardent anti-abortion social conservatives to rally behind a single Republican candidate in the 2008 White House race.

Romney took 27.6 percent of almost 6,000 votes cast, just ahead of Mike Huckabee, the folksy former governor of Arkansas, who gained 27.1 percent at the conference organized by the Family Research Council.

Maverick Texas Congressman Ron Paul was third with almost 15 percent while former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson got under 10 percent, a major disappointment for his campaign. Giuliani was eighth with 107 votes -- under 2 percent.

1. Mitt Romney ... 27.62 %
2. Mike Huckabee ... 27.10 %
3. Ron Paul ... 14.98%
4. Fred Thompson ... 9.77 %
5. Sam Brownback ... 5.14 %
6. Duncan Hunter ... 2.42 %
7. Tom Tancredo ... 2.30 %
8. Rudy Giuliani ... 1.85 %
9. John McCain ... 1.40 %

[Crabby Appleton]

1. That's a terrible thing to say about morans!!!1!! nt

[illinoisprogressive]

2. they wonder why so many people everyday are flocking to blogs.

They cannot understand that bloggers are so much more intelligent and in touch then they are. Since the 80s the press has become more and more shallow and stupid every year.
What use to be a profession that had many intellectual or savvy people, a profession that had people who really believed that the role of the press was to watchdog government and keep them somewhat honest has become legion in stupidity, shallowness and vanity. The Washington press corps is more concerned about making the rounds on the DC cocktail circuit than in doing a half decent job now.

[rasputin1952]

3. The real news is thatr they all suck...

None of them have any ideas, same old "taxes and fear" crapola.

[LiberalFighter]

4. That's because they are not journalists!!

[BootinUp]

5. Agree, but still a good win for Romney n/t

[SteppingRazor]

6. Hey! I'm a journalist, and last I checked, I was playing with a full deck.

:P