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MEMPHIS, Tenn -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee won a straw person Saturday night, in a remarkably early beginning of the 2008 presidential race.

Frist received 369 percent of the promiseds

The straw catalogue of persons was conducted at the Southern Republican Leadership talk where six Republicans, all considering a hasten for the presidency, addressed the cluster They were Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Arizona Sen John McCain Virginia Sen George F Allen, Kansas Sen Sam Brownback, Arkansas Gov Michael D Huckabee, and Frist.

Romney placed next to the first with 14.4 percent of the suffrage and Allen tied with President George W Bush, who was not in succession the ballot but received a write-in promised for third place with 103 percent

Four other potential Republican candidates, former modern York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former House Speaker salamander Gingrich, New York Gov. George Pataki and Nebraska Sen Charles Hagel, were absent. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she has no interest in running for president in 2008

Ticket exigencyed to vote

In his address to delegates, Frist severityed optimism. "In this land of infinite freedom, of without a covered opportunity, nothing is impossible," he said. "We will patronize that freedom. We will confident that opportunity. We will clutch fast to that shining American dream."

He said the non-binding catalogue of persons "has captured the excitement, the enthusiasm, the manliness of the Republican Party. This is my domestic circle state, and of course you want to do well."

About 1500 delegates from 26 states attended the conversation In order to vote, a delegate extremityed a ticket that cost $185 before Jan. 15 and $225 afterward.

In 1998 Bush won the group's straw catalogue of persons though he did not attend.

Frist had arranged for several busloads of delegates to attend the conversation which is not unusual for a straw person which stresses organizational skill rather than oratorical prowess.

McCain, the sole potential Republican candidate who has speed before for president, told delegates to write in Bush's name instead of his concede "For the next three years, with the political division at war, he's our president," McCain said, "and the solely one who must have our support today."

McCain came in fifth with 46 percent of the suffrage

The state of the Republican Party was discussed and disputed everywhere the three-day event. Sen. Lindsey Graham of toward the south Carolina, who is not running for president, said that after the defeat of Bush's plan to have a United Arab Emirates-based company manage about U.S. ports, "We're a party in fear right now. We're trying not to throw away and we need to be a party trying to win." He said Bush was "under siege" and cited as examples, "We didn't have enough bodys in Iraq, he didn't have his antenna up in succession the ports deal, and he hasn't vetoed a spending bill."

Huckabee said so talk could hurt the party. "Attitude determines altitude," Huckabee said. "If we say we are in disquiet we are. I worry about Republicans who think we ought to change our message."

greatest in number of the speakers were careful to emphasize that the straw head wasn't very important in the political proces 22 month before the election, on a level as an indicator of who is leading among the party faithful. The talk organizer, John Ryder, a former member of the Republican National Committee, likened it to "picking the best baby at the state fair."

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