"The polling indicates that McCain will register no votes in the Ames poll. As such, if he registers no votes, he will have met expectations. If he registers even one vote, he will have exceeded expectations. Thus, McCain is poised to have the highest 'exceeded expectations' percentage of the entire GOP"

You can always find a positive spin, just some times you have to pull really hard on the starter rope to get enough spin.

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I decided I was duplicating too much of what Benen had written by analyzing the other results.

Again, with your Romney bias...

It's an opinion site . . . .

It's meaningless? Right, right... The early primary states really have no impact on the primary.

The Iowa Caucuses (currently scheduled for January) aren't meaningless but the Iowa Straw Poll (coming this week!) is.

Giuliani, McCain snub Iowa straw poll

Several longshot GOP candidates are hoping to score a breakthrough by doing well in the straw poll -- among them, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo.

Dennis Goldford, a professor of politics at Drake University in Des Moines, said Giuliani's snub of the Ames contest made sense. "Even Republicans, when they're honest, will say this is just a farce, because the campaigns spend a ton of money not just on the tents and the food but on buses to get their supporters there," he said.

Again, with your Romney bias...

It's meaningless? Right, right... The early primary states really have no impact on the primary.