AP’s Jim Davenport: McCain, when asked about his 101 votes in Ames: “I thought it would be zero.”
Campaigning Monday in South Carolina, Senator McCain accurately noted the insignificance of the straw poll in Ames on Saturday, in which nonparticipants Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and himself received a grand total of 487 votes combined, out of over 14,000 cast. Key excerpts from the AP article:
…McCain, who garnered 101 votes, said he was surprised to […]