Poll

from February 2008:

Dark horse candidate poll

Republican voters are now being given to believe that “IT”S OVER” and their choice is limited to John McCain. THIS IS ONLY TRUE IF CONSERVATIVES COLLABORATE IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT MADNESS, AND ENDORSE MCCAIN WITH THEIR SUPPORT!

If conservatives do not vote for McCain in the remaining primaries, and stand united for an open convention, we can prevail. The entire convention, or separate state delegations, can act to open the proceedings and unbind their delegates even on the first ballot at the GOP convention! In any event, McCain will lack enough bound delegates to prevail at the end of the primaries, if we stop the party from stampeding to his rescue with the party’s unbound delegates!

WE MUST MOVE FORWARD OUR DEMAND FOR AN OPEN CONVENTION, AND A DRAFT FOR A TRUE CONSERVATIVE NOMINEE!

At this stage in the 2008 presidential election, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul and other, more CONSERVATIVE candidates are still on ballots in remaining state contests — AND A VOTE FOR ONE OF THEM STILL IS A STRONG MESSAGE THAT THE RANK-AND-FILE REJECTS JOHN MCCAIN, AND WANTS the delegates at OUR convention to draft a "true" conservative leader as our standard bearer.

The terrible GOP turn-out in the primaries tells the story of the impending electoral disaster with McCain at the top of the ticket — consistent with national polling that has, for months, shown "none of the above" as the conservative choice. A growing number of Republicans are talking about "voting with their feet”
(planted firmly on a footrest), and sitting out the general election altogether.

At OpenGOPConvention.com, we're pushing for a wide-open "brokered" convention in which the delegates take charge and pick a nominee they agree supports the Reagan platform, fits the mold of a true conservative, and reflects the values of grassroots Americans.

This could result in the drafting of a "dark horse" nominee not usually mentioned by the media or the party.

We're therefore running our own online preference poll to identify possible choices beyond those we've seen widely in the media, on party lists, or at the ballot box, throughout what has obviously been an elitist-engineered, virtually runaway election. (Hence we're not including familiar names like McCain, Giuliani, Thompson, Romney, Huckabee, or Paul — no matter the support that continues to exist for them. We're looking to identify someone new, generally overlooked, or not previously given a fair opportunity.)

Take a look at our list and pick your favorites — at least your top three. You can write in one additional name.

    1st   2nd   3rd Tom Coburn (Senator from Oklahoma)
    1st   2nd   3rd Jim DeMint (Senator from South Carolina)
    1st   2nd   3rd Newt Gingrich (former Speaker of the House)
    1st   2nd   3rd Duncan Hunter (Congressman from California)
    1st   2nd   3rd Alan Keyes (former Assistant Secretary of State)
    1st   2nd   3rd Tim Pawlenty (Governor of Minnesota)
    1st   2nd   3rd Mark Sanford (Governor of South Carolina)
    1st   2nd   3rd Tom Tancredo (Congressman from Colorado)
    1st   2nd   3rd Other:
       


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