Breaking: Rand Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll, Losing Chance To Become President
Senator Rand Paul, following in his father’s footsteps four times before him, again just won the CPAC straw poll. He also won last year. The poll of Republicans attending this weekend’s Conservative Political Action Convention historically determines the most-radical potential presidential candidate, but rarely the one who will win the White House.
The field is huge in the Republican civil war right now — there were 25 names on the straw poll ballot.
Previous winners included Mitt Romney four times, Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp three times, Gary Bauer, Rudy Giuliani, and George W. Bush, once, in 2000, the last time a CPAC winner won the White House.
#CPAC2014 Straw Poll Winner: @SenRandPaul http://t.co/q2gXRj9wjr pic.twitter.com/Clhh4Lp9Hu
— CPAC (@CPACnews) March 8, 2014
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