In what many palmetto political insiders will find as a huge surprise, Mitt Romney won tonight’s Charleston County GOP straw poll by double digit margins.
Why the surprise? 2 reasons: First, outgoing Charleston County GOP Chairwoman Cyndi Mosteller is a huge McCain supporter and has been working her members for months for the McCain campaign. She gained national attention a few months back for accosting Romney for his faith during a SCGOP executive committee meeting. Second, the lowcountry has always been McCain’s South Carolina stronghold and is where he received the majority of his votes against Bush in 2000.
I'm not too big on these straw polls out county dinners where some of the candidates speak. It's great to win . . . but people are prone to vote for the guy who showed up (as evidenced by McCain's 65% in Western Michigan similar event earlier this week).
Still, getting as much as Rudy and McCain combined never hurts . . . poor Cox showed up and only got 2 people to vote for him.
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