When Ron Paul Wins It's an Outlier

No doubt every straw poll is meaningless.  They are not a measurement of anything except to a small extent of campaign organization and even that too might be an overstatement.  Nonetheless, we've seen our share of Republicans running for the finish line when it comes to bragging about the results.  Don't forget, either, the over-exaggeration is all made possible by the media establishment.  Michelle Bachmann was treated like queen frontrunner, even though she clearly wasn't, after winning a straw poll at the Iowa state fair.

Rare it is though, or maybe never do you see the actual organizers of the straw poll shrugging off its over-hyped importance.  Typically straw poll organizers, like Values Voter Summit leader Tony Perkins, do everything they can to ensure the masses that their straw poll is necessary and trustworthy.  Prior to the event "Perkins said his organization did 'everything to preserve the integrity of this straw poll,' including denying campaigns from buying blocks of tickets, "which they attempted to do this year."  Well that was before Ron Paul won it.

Within minutes after Paul captured 37% of the vote, enough to garner him the win, Perkins began shrugging off the victory even suggesting its irrelevancy. 

“I don’t think Ron Paul is truly reflective of where values voters stand,” said Perkins on CNN’s "American Morning on Monday."  Perkins went on to call Paul's win an "outlier" and even accused Paul's supporters of ballot-stuffing.

Wow, I really don't think I've ever seen a poll organizer do such a thing.

It's clear Ron Paul wasn't supposed to win Perkins' poll.  Perkins would have preferred Herman Cain, Perry or even Romney over Paul.  Since that didn't happen, Perkins does what every Christian Moralist and George Bush voter does and shrugs the poll off as being detached from the mainstream of voters.  I find it hard to believe if one of Perkins' chosen ones had won, he would have been calling it an "outlier."