PresidentialPolitics

Taking Republicans' Presidential Pulse at a Political Reality Show

During the more than three decades of my misbegotten adolescence covering presidential politics, I have grown exasperated with the ersatz measures of candidate popularity and momentum that fill the news void until the primaries. Before you object -- no, this is not a premature lament. Less than two weeks ago, the press waited eagerly for the results of a self-selected 2012 straw poll at the self-selected Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington before seeing their GOP trend stories deflated when Ron Paul won. The Gallup Poll in early February measured national Republican ...

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