Brownback Wins Students for Life Straw Poll

(Press Release) DES MOINES – The Brownback for President campaign today announced Senator Brownback's first-place finish in the Students for Life of America presidential straw poll.

Senator Brownback finished first with 23 percent of the vote, followed by Fred Thompson (22 percent), Mitt Romney (11 percent), Ron Paul (9 percent), Rudy Giuliani (7 percent), John McCain (5 percent) and Mike Huckabee (5 percent). The poll asked 650 members of Students for Life of America, "Who do you plan on voting for in the presidential primary election?"

"Senator Brownback's first-place victory in the Students for Life straw poll is a recognition of his unmatched efforts leading the fight to protect life," said John Rankin, Iowa communications director of Brownback for President. "Senator Brownback's campaign has surged forward through the energy and commitment of conservative college students. This latest straw poll confirms Senator Brownback's strong support from this key activist base."

This strong showing follows Brownback's top-three finish in the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa last weekend.

Senator Brownback is one of only two candidates to place in the top three in the two most important straw polls in 2007, at Ames last weekend and at the CPAC convention in March in Washington, DC.

Students for Life of America is the largest pro-life college student organization in the country, with approximately 255 active member organizations across the U.S.

Comments

[BSR]

Dear Senator Brownback,

If you are truly pro life you must now bow out of the race for president. The recent Ames straw poll clearly shows two things:

1) The conservative, Christian, pro-life vote does not support Romney. Combined, your support and Governor Huckabee's support in the poll was greater than Romney's. The voters have spoken. It is time for the pro-life vote to coalece behind the one candidate who can carry the pro-life message effectively forward.

2) Continuing your campaign will only continue to divide the conservative, Christian, pro-life constituency and will only contiue to prop up Mitt Romney's false status as a "front-runner." You know that Romney is not truly pro-life and that his candidacy is a danger to the very principles you stand so admirably for.

Rich Lowry of National Review Online agrees, saying that continuing your campaign in the wake of the straw poll "might end up hurting the pro-life cause."

According to Lowry, continuing your campaign hurts the man pro-life voters want and, "in practical terms for pro-lifers, [your] campaign is balanced somewhere between pointless and counter-productive."

And, devastatingly, Lowry goes further: "the truth is that the Brownback presidential campaign is doing the senator’s moral cause no favors. If anything... his cause is being hurt by the association."

Senator, you are a great man and respected leader whom I admire tremendously. It is time for you to demonstrate that leadership and your committment to protecting the unborn by making a very unselfish decison --- you must continue the important work of promoting the cause of protecting and honoring the dignity of all human lives — in the U.S. Senate.

Senator, please. Choose life.

BSR

[Kevin Tracy]

I don't think it's a good idea to put so much weight into conservative, pro-life college students. They aren't exactly a reliable or sizable voting block.

I'm a Catholic, but Brownback isn't the best messenger for the cause. That title belongs to Mike Huckabee. Brownback should endorse Huckabee and unite the conservative movement before it's too late.

[Kevin Tracy]

I don't think it's a good idea to put so much weight into conservative, pro-life college students. They aren't exactly a reliable or sizable voting block.

I'm a Catholic, but Brownback isn't the best messenger for the cause. That title belongs to Mike Huckabee. Brownback should endorse Huckabee and unite the conservative movement before it's too late.

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