Straw Man?Patrick Ruffini's
straw poll of potential Republican candidates is attracting quite a bit of attention from the right side of the blogosphere. More interesting than the
overall results (which are, after all, unscientific) is the breakdown by the different referring blogs.
People coming over from
Hugh Hewitt's blog broke 44% for Allen, 29% for Rudy, and 15% for Romney. Frist (6%) and McCain (3.8%) did pretty poorly.
From
Instapundit the numbers were quite different: 44% for Giuliani, 23% for Allen, 15% for McCain. Romney (12%) and Frist (5%) brought up the rear.
This is not all that surprising; Hugh's crowd is much more likely to be movement conservatives, while Instapundit represents more the libertarian strain of the party.
Polipundit readers had almost twice as much support for Allen (53%) as Rudy (27%). Right Wing News readers broke virtually the same way, with Allen getting 47% of the votes while Giuliani got 25.5%.
You know how it is with these polls though; they represent only the tiniest slice of the most informed political readers on the right side of the blogosphere. Let's remember that Moo-On's straw poll in 2003 had Dean first, closely followed by Dennis Kucinich.
While we're on the
subject of Kucinich...
