Hagelin came in third in a non-binding straw poll held in Fayette, Missouri, after visiting there twice.

A straw poll conducted during the county Republican Party primary election, showed strong opposition to the idea countywide.

Thompson had stated he would drop out of the race if he did not finish either first or second in the Ames straw poll on August 11, 2007.

The first known example of an opinion poll was a local straw poll conducted by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian in 1824, showing Andrew Jackson leading John Quincy Adams by 335 votes to 169 in the contest for the United States Presidency.

In the past, the summit has been a place for social conservatives across the nation to hear Republican presidential hopefuls ' platforms, and via a straw poll since 2007 also a means of providing an early prediction of which candidate will win the endorsement of Christian conservatives.

He scored 5 % of the vote in the 2008 CPAC straw poll.

At the 2007 CPAC conference, held March 1 – 3, Tancredo was ranked sixth in the CPAC straw poll, with 9 %, when first and second choices were combined.

On August 10, 2007, Rep. Tom Tancredo's presidential campaign reportedly was the victim of an e-mail hoax on the eve of the Republican Party straw poll in Ames, Iowa.

In 1980, Republicans began the tradition of holding a straw poll at their caucuses, giving the appearance of a primary election.

A straw poll or straw vote is a vote with nonbinding results.

A formal straw poll is common in American political caucuses.

The Ames, Iowa, straw poll has achieved a reputation as a meaningful straw poll during the presidential campaign because of its large voter turnout and relatively high media recognition, as well as Iowa's being the first state to vote in caucuses before the primaries.

In an ordinary event-based straw poll, controls common to elections are enforced: voting twice is prohibited ; polls are not open for inordinately long periods of time ; interim results are not publicized before polls close ; etc.

Selection bias, nonresponse bias, or coverage bias occurs when the conditions for subset polling significantly differ from the conditions for the larger poll or election ; event-based straw polls, where registration often closely mirrors voter registration, suffer less from nonresponse bias than opinion polls, where inclusion generally means owning a landline phone, being the party that answers the phone, being willing to answer the poll questions, and being a " likely voter " based on pollster criteria.

His strong support for a nuclear freeze won him an intense following among anti-nuclear activists, support that translated into campaign donations, committed staff ( future Washington Senator Maria Cantwell moved to the state in 1983 to head up Cranston's caucus campaign effort there ) and volunteers and straw poll victories in Wisconsin, California, and Alabama.

** The Independence Party of Minnesota tabulates results of an instant-runoff straw poll and finds John Edwards to be the winner .......................

Opponents of the registry cite an online straw poll to suggest 92 % regular officers believe that the registry is ineffective and should be dismantled ; that poll, conducted by Cst.

Clinton's victory in the Florida straw poll over Harkin made him the early front-runner in the post-Cuomo vacuum.

Oga is famous for its Namahage Festival, a traditional event held on New Year's Eve in which groups of men dressed as ogre-like deities called " Namahage " with masks and straw raincoats visit houses at night.

The leaf of Victoria is able to support quite a large weight due to the plant's structure, although the leaf itself is quite delicate: so much so that " a straw held 6 inches above and dropped perpendicularly upon it would readily pass through it ".

The idiom may allude to a straw ( thin plant stalk ) held up to see in what direction the wind blows, in this case, the wind of group opinion.

In July 2006 a straw poll was held among the UNSG candidates and Dr. Surakiat placed third, behind Ban Ki Moon from South Korea and Shashi Tharoor from India.

" Leaping from straw hat-to-straw hat of five men arranged from back-to-front in ascending order of height, Buddy manages to see the grand celebration: a baton wielder bounces his belly ; a drum, held by two marchers, is host to six tiny people who jump upon it ; in addition to trumpeters and tiny men whose hats double as cymbals, the procession happens to include a pianist!

In 1999, the Enlarged Board of Appeal held that the use of a straw man did not render the opposition inadmissible unless " the involvement of the opponent is to be regarded as circumventing the law by abuse of process.

For Petipa this was the final straw, and soon afterward he was rarely seen at the theatre or the Imperial Ballet School ( where rehearsals were held ).

On 16 May, 1998, the Utah IAP held a straw vote favoring the formation of a National Independent American Party.

The three states that merged to form Baden-Württemberg in 1952. A straw poll was held on 24 September 1950 in Württemberg-Baden, Württemberg-Hohenzollern and Baden regarding a merger of the three states.

A straw poll was held on 24 September 1950 in Württemberg-Hohenzollern, Württemberg-Baden, and Baden regarding a merger of the three states.

There was a man's jacket on the chair and a straw hat on the table.

The same mixture to make bricks, without the straw, is used for mortar and often for plaster on interior and exterior walls.

Air shows, and other big shows such as agricultural shows, on grassy land, are vulnerable to continued heavy rain waterlogging the ground, and making the cloudbase too low for flying, forcing cancellation, or the show ending early, costing much money for the show's organizers, as people and parking cars have difficulty moving about and turn the land into a morass, and the organizers may be tempted to put straw or cinders down to make movement easier, and the owner of the land cannot accept the resulting damage.

In " A Village Sketch ," author Miss Mitford wrote: " Then comes a sun-burnt gipsy of six, beginning to grow tall and thin and to find the cares of the world gathering about her ; with a pitcher in one hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair ; a tattered stuff petticoat once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock, once purple ; her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher and darts off to her companions quite regardless of the storm of scolding with which the mother follows her runaway steps.

During " Thank God I'm a Country Boy ", Charlie Zill an usher in the club level sections ( 244 ) puts on overalls, straw hat, false teeth and starts dancing around.

The Protestant reformer Martin Luther denied it was the work of an apostle and termed it an " epistle of straw " as compared to some other books in the New Testament, not least because of the conflict he thought it raised with Paul on the doctrine of justification ( see below ).

Þrymr commands the jötnar in his hall to spread straw on the benches, for Freyja has arrived to be his wife.

In the poem, the jötunn Þrymr mistakenly thinks that he will be receiving the goddess Freyja as his bride, and while telling his fellow jötunn to spread straw on the benches in preparation for the arrival of Freyja, he refers to her as the daughter of Njörðr of Nóatún.

Adobe roofs are roofs of clay, mixed with binding material such as straw or animal hair, and plastered on lathes to form a flat or gently sloped roof, usually in areas of low rainfall.

Carnival on these islands also includes a middle-of-the-night j ' ouvert ( juvé ) parade that ends at sunrise with the burning of a straw King Momo, cleansing the island of sins and bad luck.

A straw man, known in the UK as an Aunt Sally, is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.

The last straw was when Don Salvador read in a Barcelona newspaper that his son had recently exhibited in Paris a drawing of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, with a provocative inscription: " Sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother's portrait ".

In Joyce's Ulysses, rhododendrons play an important role in Leopold and Molly's early courtship: Molly remembers them in her soliloquy-" the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me ".

Sony wanted MD Data to replace floppy disks, but the Zip drive from Iomega ended up filling that market need and, later on, the advent of affordable CD-writers and very cheap blank CD media, coupled with the availability of memory sticks and cards proved the final straw for MD-Data.

Her lady-in-waiting Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan replied on such rumors that Marie Antoinette visited the workshops of the village in a simple dress of white percale with a gauze scarf and a straw hat.

With fewer jobs, lower wages and no prospects of things improving for these workers the threshing machine was the final straw, the machine was to place them on the brink of starvation.

The final straw between Haywood and the Socialist Party came during the Lawrence textile strike when, disgusted with the decision of the elected officials in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to send police who subsequently used their clubs on children, Haywood publicly declared that " I will not vote again " until such a circumstance was rectified.

Old methods consisted of arranging the bars on tied bundles of straw, and, as still practiced today, placing the bars adjacent to each other in a ladder-like layout.

The instrument had already been popularized to some extent by Michael Josef Gusikov, whose instrument was the five-row xylophone made of 28 crude wooden bars arranged in semitones in the form of a trapezoid and resting on straw supports.

* Straw man: A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresenting an opponent's position so as to more easily refute it.

Such wines were described by the Romans, and northern Italy is home to a number of ' passito ' wines, where the grapes are dried on straw, on racks, or hung from the rafters.

Hammocks were readily adopted as a convenient means to increase the crew capacity on ships and improved the sanitary conditions of the sleeping quarters ; old straw – which was commonly used for bedding in earlier times, quickly became rotten and infested by parasites in the damp, cramped crew quarters of sailing ships.

* The first live-action Scooby-Doo theatrical film — where Scrappy played a decidedly negative and darker role as the main antagonist, wanting revenge on Mystery Inc., for abandoning him years ago ( he was kicked out for continuously urinating on Daphne, being obnoxious, and the final straw was when he tried to vote himself as the leader of Mystery Inc .).