NEWT IN THE STRAW
By Celia Cohen
Grapevine Political WriterNewt has his surge here, too.
Newt Gingrich, who has been left for dead in politics enough times to be the envy of Richard Nixon, nevertheless nudged out Mitt Romney in a modest presidential straw poll, taken Wednesday evening by the state Republicans at a Delaware Day dinner.
The tally had Gingrich with 39 votes, Romney with 38 votes, Rick Santorum from neighboring Pennsylvania with six votes, Ron Paul with five votes, and five other candidates splitting another 10 votes, including two write-ins for Sarah Palin.
These crazy finding are significant, because it wasn’t the a Sussex County 9-12 Patriot Racism fest presided over by a WGMD disc jockey. This was an actual DE GOP event and the straw polled were the party officials and delegates who basically run the show.