Al Gore wins a straw poll... of 35 people. (who cares?)

[Fash]

I like Drudge but this Arizona story he posted, about 35 people who paid $20 to vote and picked Al Gore, will likely be picked up by the national media... and somehow the part about it only being 35 people will be left out or glazed over. Is that a slight on Drudges media power or on the medias desire for Info-tainment? Imho it's not news and it's not newsworthy... It's information, useless information at that.. fitting for a city newspaper, and it's entertaining because Al isn't even a candidate...

The headline kills me... Al Gore is the surprise choice of Scottsdale Dems... must be a real republican town then huh? only 35 democrats?

http://www.azcentral.com/community/scot ... re-ON.html

Al Gore is surprise choice of Scottsdale Dems

Lesley Wright
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 21, 2007 11:17 AM
SCOTTSDALE - Democrats in District 8, which covers most of Scottsdale and Fountain Hills, surprisingly chose non-candidate Al Gore as their favorite presidential nominee in a recent straw poll.

Of the announced candidates, John Edwards took the popularity prize with 29 percent of the vote on the second ballot.

More than 40 participants from Scottsdale, Fountain Hills and the Rio Verde foothills took the poll Saturdayat the home of Margaret Hogan, chair of the District 8 Democrats.

About 35 people paid the $20 fund-raiser fee required to receive a ballot.

[Nick]

It's irrelevant of course because Gore isn't running, but anyone with a brain knows he's an infinitely better choice than anyone that is actually running.

If only the US could turn back the clock to 2000 again and not vote for a retard.

[Tyek]

I guess I am not hip and cool because I never got the Al Gore thing. If your point is he would do better then Bush, well that is not exactly aiming high.

[Canelek]

Me neither, I always thought Al was a bit of a douche. And don't get me started on Tipper, Lieberman and the PMRC.

[Wulfran]

To me this is about as relevant as the post Ashuran made about Ron Paul winning straw polls in New Hampshire and Alabama: the poll sizes are far to small to mean anything other than a propaganda victory to post on the candidates website. And since Gore isn't running, in this case it means even less

[Midnyte_Ragebringer]

To me this is about as relevant as the post Ashuran made about Ron Paul winning straw polls in New Hampshire and Alabama: the poll sizes are far to small to mean anything other than a propaganda victory to post on the candidates website. And since Gore isn't running, in this case it means even less

That was Fash's point. He was disgusted at how people would even report such a non-story. It's 35 mother fucking people. It means shit. It deserves no story.

[Canelek]

To me this is about as relevant as the post Ashuran made about Ron Paul winning straw polls in New Hampshire and Alabama: the poll sizes are far to small to mean anything other than a propaganda victory to post on the candidates website. And since Gore isn't running, in this case it means even less

That was Fash's point. He was disgusted at how people would even report such a non-story. It's 35 mother fucking people. It means shit. It deserves no story.

Well, it did present me the opportunity to bash Al, Tipper and Jay yet again.

[Fash]

Yeah, my point was that it wasn't news... While I don't have a problem with the scottsdale paper printing it I would appreciate a more honest headline, and would expect bigger news outlets (drudge included) to ignore it completely.

Unless they want to also run with the story that my friends and I had a straw poll and the 'surprise' winner was Snoop Dogg.