Crawford and Ida County Barnstorming for Governor Straw Poll Results
- Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 1:07
- Craig Robinson, Iowa
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Four Republican gubernatorial candidates attended the Crawford and Ida County Barnstorming for Governor last night. 100 people were in attendance to listen to the candidates and cast their vote on who they preferred.
The Results are as follows:
Vander Plaats: 33%
Rants: 28%
Fong: 21%
Roberts: 18%
KTIV TV 4 from Sioux City was there and covered the event. You can read their report from the event by clicking here.
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Craig Robinson serves as the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheIowaRepublican.com. Prior to founding Iowa's largest conservative news site, Robinson served as the Political Director of the Republican Party of Iowa during the 2008 Iowa Caucuses. In that capacity, Robinson planned and organized the largest political event in 2007, the Iowa Straw Poll, in Ames, Iowa. Robinson also organized the 2008 Republican caucuses in Iowa, and was later dispatched to Nevada to help with the caucuses there. Robinson cut his teeth in Iowa politics during the 2000 caucus campaign of businessman Steve Forbes and has been involved with most major campaigns in the state since then. His extensive political background and rolodex give him a unique perspective from which to monitor the political pulse of Iowa.
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Does Rants represent Crawford and Ida counties?
Stacia, is that where Sioux City is? Right area code, wrong zip code.
Craig, nice story. Please forgive me, however I’m gonna pee on your parade just a bit. As much as this is encouraging for the conservatives, we are talking about the right ventricle of the 5th district(is Sioux Co. the Aorta???) probably the most conservative Congressional District in the country(I’m not knocking it, I’m proud to be from there!).
When you have results from a population center such as Polk, Linn, Black Hawk, or even Des Moines, Dubuque, Wapello, Webster or Worth, then we may start to see the true indicators of where the candidates may play out. Thanks for keeping us posted though!!!
BVP should be concerned that even in his own “backyard” so to speak…he can’t pull above 35% in a straw poll…
Well, really it was Rod Roberts’ “backyard” and no more BVP’s backyard than Rants’.
Peggy…
Sounds like an excuse to me. BVP’s been running for Governor for nearly 10 years…being from nearby Sioux City, there’s no excuse that BVP couldn’t pull more than what he did in this straw poll. If BVP wants to win this nomination, he’s going to have to do BETTER than this in his backyard. Merely splitting the vote with Rants isn’t going to do the job.
Hawk,
You sound paranoid.
Or maybe you’re offering your political skills to help BVP pull in more support?
LOL.. I’m not paranoid at all.. I’m merely pointing out reality. With two candidates from the heart of Steve King country….BVP is going to have to do better than just splitting the vote w Rants in Western Iowa to have any shot at winning the GOP nomination.
Again..BVP’s been running virtually non-stop for nearly 10 years. He can’t say that he’s the “new guy” in the mix anymore. Yet, he still hasn’t been able to generate the kind of excitement and/or enthusiasm you would expect from a “front runner”.
Come January 19th…if his fundraising numbers don’t show him with at least 750,000 cash on hand at MINIMUM…he’s in serious trouble.
If anything, it would seem that BVP doesn’t have a lock on the socons that some would like us to believe. If anything, it seems to me they should be supporting Roberts anyway as he is the more credible candidate on those issues.
Wow Bob did great…. Yea That would be in Roberts backyard.
Jeff..
No..BVP did NOT do great here. If BVP wants to start cementing himself as a front runner..he needs to demonstrate that he can pull more than 35% in these “straw polls”. 35% is the magic number that a candidate is going to have to pull in the primary to become the nominee.
If the primary breaks this way come June next year…the GOP nomination gets thrown to the State Convention….and if that happens…you’re going to see all sorts of chaos.
Bring on the chaos! Maybe Iowans will wake up.
Oh really…so are you prepared for a potential backroom deal that keeps your candidate from the nomination, Peggy?
Because that is EXACTLY what happens in those situations…not to mention that would like fracture the party so badly, there would be little hope of unifying our forces to get Culver out in November.
No one likes backroom deals…especially when it involves who a candidate will be. All you have to do is look at NY-23 and see what happened.
Hawk,
I believe we’re already living the backroom deal.
Oh really now Peggy…. so there’s just all these shadowy figures telling every county central committee who they’ll be voting for come June.
You sound like a loon saying something like that Peggy.
Hawk,
You alone can’t stop pointing out to us how BVP’s straw poll win at the Crawford-Ida Counties’ event was a farce.
Just relax and let the campaign run its course – you’re trying to hard to make it look like a lock for your boy Branstad.
I didnt say it was a farce….Don’t try putting words in my mouth, Peggy.. you’re only making yourself an even bigger fool.
Go back and ready what I said…I clearly stated that BVP should have done FAR better than 33% in a straw poll in his own backyard. If BVP wants to have any hope of winning this nomination, he needs to be separating himself from the rest of the field…
Clearly, he’s not doing that. I’ll type this again Peggy so you dont have to go back and re-read it. With two candidates from the heart of Steve King country….BVP is going to have to do FAR better than just splitting the Western Iowa vote with Rants in order to win the primary
Once again, Pegster..BVP is not generating the type of enthusiasm that you’d see out of a “front runner” status candidate. The guy has been running for Governor for nearly 10 years…quite frankly, he should be walking away with this race, Peggy….instead, he’s struggling on a daily basis to keep himself from being defined as a single issue candidate.
The sad part is, Peg…is that BVP has done all the damage to his campaign himself..he has no one else to blame for it.
Hawk,
Why do you keep insisting that the Crawford-Ida event was ONLY in BVP’s backyard? Roberts actually represents the eastern portion of Crawford County and Sioux City is closer to Ida Grove than Orange City is.
Your desire to see TEB as the nominee has hampered your ability to tell the truth, and your fear of a potential BVP primary win is palpable. Let it go, dude.
I have no fear of a BVP primary win because it has a 0% chance of occurring.
Peggy…keep up the equivocating….You haven’t answered a single point that I brought up.
If you’re been running for Governor for 10 years..and you can’t get more than 33% in a straw poll in your area…you’re in deep trouble.
As I stated, BVP should be walking away with this race….instead, he’s struggling to keep up and stay relevant.
Mr. Hawk, why are you so sure VP will not get the nomination?
“….instead, he’s struggling on a daily basis to keep himself from being defined as a single issue candidate.” — HawkCR1
Only because folks like you insist on painting him as one.
“If you’re been running for Governor for 10 years..and you can’t get more than 33% in a straw poll in your area…you’re in deep trouble.” — HawkCR1
I’ll say this one more time. Compared to Roberts and Rants, the Crawford-Ida event wasn’t really BVP’s “area.”
Come down from your Johnson County tower, study western Iowa on a map, and get your facts straight.
“Mr. Hawk, why are you so sure VP will not get the nomination?”
- Because I posses probably the greatest political mind within our State’s borders.
Or the biggest ego.:)