Huckabee Wins 'Values Voter' Straw Poll; Palin Places 4th

September 21, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

Results are in from the 2012 presidential straw poll at this weekend's Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.

I was surprised that Sarah Palin placed fourth, after Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, but Palin snubbed the summit. Huckabee, Romney, and Pawlenty all spoke.

Newt Gingrich and Bobby Jindal, also low vote-getters, skipped the summit, too.

Full poll results:

  1. Mike Huckabee (170 votes, 28.48%)
  2. Mitt Romney (74 votes, 12.40%)
  3. Tim Pawlenty (73 votes, 12.23%)
  4. Sarah Palin (72 votes, 12.06%)
  5. Mike Pence (71 votes, 11.89%)
  6. Newt Gingrich (40 votes, 6.70%)
  7. Bobby Jindal (28 votes, 4.69%)
  8. Rick Santorum (15 votes, 2.51%)
  9. Ron Paul (13 votes, 2.18%)
  10. Undecided (31 votes, 5.19%)

Other (10 votes, 1.68%)

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Ah, the land of the free!

You have the right to free speech as long as you speak English.

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lcd of AL 8:22AM January 25, 2010

Palin is out.Its obvious greed has caught up with her. She has

four goals she want to acomplish .(1) get the money from the book deal, (2) land a job on fox TV,(3)get the rest of the money from speaking engagements and (4)soak up the limelight as much as possible while doing the other three goals of hers.

The real republican president candidate has yet to show his face.

howard clark of WA 10:20PM September 21, 2009

When a pregnant, single, poor woman doesn't abort, she goes on welfare. We taxpayers provide her with welfare, ADC, food stamps, free county hospital health care & subsidized housing. Sometimes we help her child get tuition.** Now, the basic fact of "fiscal conservancy" is to cut back everything that burdens taxpayers. Conservatives are also against "big government." But it takes More Government to enforce church laws that ban abortion. How big does Big Brother have to be, until it's bigger than the government being in everybody's bedroom? Conservatives need to take another look at Palin. See what happens as Pro-Life preserves the pattern of "big families on welfare." Often, they're religiously and strictly Ban-Abortion. They stubbornly reject all efforts to make them behave responsibly. Why? Because they're practicing their faith. Let her continue to preach, but if you're fiscally conservative, do you want more poor, big families to be subsidized by taxpayers? I know I can't afford to support them, and never did. I'm just a GENUINELY fiscally-conservative Pro-Choice taxpayer.

auradawn veirs of CA 2:41PM September 21, 2009

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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