US conservatives prefer Paul to Palin: poll
AFP
Date: 2/21/2010
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A straw poll of US conservative activists saw Texas congressman Ron Paul emerge as the preferred Republican presidential candidate to run against President Barack Obama in 2012.
Some 31 percent of the more than 2,000 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) attendees who participated in the poll voted for the outspoken libertarian.
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, John McCain's running mate in 2008, came in third with 7.0 percent, some way behind former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (22 percent), who had won the CPAC poll for the last three years.
There were boos among the crowd as the name of Paul –– a 74–year–old Texan who ran a short–lived presidential campaign in 2008 and is considered unlikely to be a serious contender for the Republican party?s nomination –– was announced.
On other issues, 98 percent of CPAC voters disapproved of the job Obama was doing and 62 percent approved of the way the Republican minority was handling itself in Congress.
A part of the American Conservative Union, CPAC said nearly 10,000 people attended its annual conference Thursday through Saturday in Washington.
CPAC members are mostly male (64 percent) and young (54 percent aged 18–25).
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