Page 22 - 438 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Representatives and ask for increases every year until we have done everything possible to make every dollar count. unless there's real reform in the way the department of defense does business and spends taxpayer dollars. >> this plan is almost certain to stir opposition at the pentagon and congress. >> well, here on every cnn saturday and sunday morning, we make it our goal to introduce you to a person we just think you should know. no matter who that is. not necessarily a famous person. somebody we think you should know about. and we have one for you this morning. there she is. we'll tell y...

A first hint who the republicans may like for president in 2012. it's not scientific, just a straw poll from the southern republican leadership conference down in new orleans. and get, this the winner won by just one vote. mitt romney, who wasn't at the event, got 439 votes. ron paul was second with 438. sarah palin, newt gingrich tied for third. and again, noting there's nothing scientific about it and no guarantee that these folks will even run for president. just a little gauge of how republicans are thinking. the gop chairman spoke to the conference today, and this comes after a recent s...

May like for president in 2012. not scientific, just a straw pole from the southern republic leadership conference. mitt rom mi got 439 votes. ron paul was second with 438. sarah palin, newt gingrich tied for third and knowing there's nothing scientific about it and no guarantee that these folks will even run for president just a little gauge of how republicans are thinking. the gop chairman spoke to the conference today and this comes after a recent scandal over donor money spent at a nightclub in hollywood. michael steele took responsibility and admitted he has made mistakes. >> please, ev...

That came here with him. he had 438. in third place, catch lightning in a jar candidate on the republican party whether she's running or not, no one knows, sarah palin with 330 votes. in fourth place, the former house speaker newt gingrich. in 1994 he led republicans to the first house majority in nearly 50 years. using that as springboard for 2012 there were hosts of other candidates there you have it the top four, mitt romney who was absent, followed by ron paul then sarah palin in third followed by newt gingrich. >> nicely done, thanks so much. hard core apple fans have had one week now to ...

By is in new orleans. he joins us live. so i'm going to see who i think -- i'm just looking at the numbers here. i'm seeing if it's kind of what i thought. okay. so the winner is? >> the winner is mitt romney by one vote. he beat texas congressman ron paul by one vote in the straw poll. this was a sampling of a pretty small group of people, about 1800 folks voted. romney got 439 votes, ron paul i believe got 438. you can see the results behind me. sarah palin who really brought the house down here yesterday finished with a tie for third police with newt gingrich. they got 18% of the straw poll...