Chuck Muth has an opinion about the Clark County Republican Party Straw Poll controversy:

A representative of the Clark County Republican Party (“Now Open Under New Management!”) this morning called claims by U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle that the party was withholding the results of a January 19 straw poll “a crock.” According to the party, the reason those results haven’t been published yet, three weeks after the fact, is supposedly because they have to be tabulated by hand.

Now, THAT’S a crock. It doesn’t take three weeks to count and tabulate the results of a 35-question straw poll of just a few hundred votes. And it takes a fraction of that time to tabulate the results of this one important election-related race.

Indeed, this Clark County straw poll is starting to smell worse than that brouhaha at the state GOP convention in Reno in 2008. At least the election results for that election were locked in a box until they were counted in public in front of witnesses. In this case, no one outside a few party insiders apparently knows where the Clark GOP’s straw poll ballots are, who is or has had access to them, whether or not they’ve been tampered with let alone what the results are.

It seems the malcontents who have taken over the Clark County GOP have become exactly what they were fighting against, doesn’t it?

I reported yesterday on my email from from Ned Barnett, Clark County Republican Party Communications Director. I don’t think they appreciate this dust-up. Unfortunately, there are valid concerns:

1. Poll data is perishable. The Republican primary for a Senate candidate is red hot and crazy wild. Things change. Three week old poll data belongs in the bottom of bird cage.

2. The extended delay is disconcerting to Republican voters. When we see other county level Republican organizations releasing their straw poll results, it is natural to wonder why CCRP is taking so long.

3. After all the chaos of resignations and new committee members, Clark County Republicans would really love it if their CCRP would appear competent.

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