It seems that coming in second in a straw poll is a very big deal. Mitt Romney showed up to the Nevada Straw Poll, and finished second behind Ron Paul. Ron Paul won the straw poll, but is only mentioned in the first paragraph.
SPARKS, Nev. – Ron Paul won the GOP presidential straw poll conducted by organizers at the Conservative Leadership Conference held at the Nugget Casino this weekend “by a large margin,†according to an organizer.
Paul won with 33 percent, Romney came in second with 16 percent and Duncan Hunter was just behind with 15 percent.
The rest of the story fails to mention Ron Paul, but focuses on Romney. The headline even confuses me:
ROMNEY LOSES NV STRAW POLL
Is that supposed to be a big deal? I mean, he showed up, but so did Duncan Hunter. Why not, “Hunter Loses NV Straw Poll?” Or better yet, “RON PAUL WINS NV STRAW POLL” and then talk about how he won when he didn’t even show up for it. Only the hack journalists at MSNBC could be so overt in the bias.
