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Huckabee Wins Social Cons

Written by Matthew Lee Anderson | Oct 20, 2007 7:45:11 PM

Okay, so the title is a little over the top.  But there is good news for the Huckabee campaign today from the Washington Briefing.

While Huckabee lost the straw poll, he won the on-site voting 5/1.  There were 488 people who voted for Huckabee at the conference (as opposed to online) while 99 voted for Romney.

That isn't a perfect measure of the people who attended the conference, as some people who attended the conference voted online.  But it is a clear indication that for those who weren't previously on board the Romney campaign, Huckabee is their guy.

Which narrative is going to take hold--that Romney won the straw poll (by 30 votes) or that Huckabee beat him 5/1 among those at the event itself (this includes, I assume, the various people that Romney brought in specifically to support him on the site).