Straw polls. So what?
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Ken Rudin at NPR asks a good question.
Excuse me, but what "meaning" could possibly come out of a presidential straw poll taken of 1,427 Republicans at a party conference some 650 days, give or take, before the 2008 Iowa caucuses? We haven't even had the '06 midterm elections yet, for gosh sakes, and we're paying attention to straw polls on whom the GOP will pick two years hence? Hello?
(Update 7:26 p.m.) And J.J. Sutherland answers him.
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