How to Buy a Straw Poll

reason.com — Republicans held a straw poll in Vinoy Park, FL, down the road from the YouTube debate, and around 500 Ron Paul backers showed up to support their man. Yet Mitt Romney won the poll handily, with 893 votes out of 1539 cast... at event that drew around 1000 people. How'd he do it? Nov 30, 2007 View in Crawl 4