So last night, J and I were doing our traditional ‘Girls Night’ at Delaney’s when a couple of beers into the evening I said, “I’m going to poll these people and see who they are voting for in the upcoming primaries.”

J gave me his “you are a damn nut” look. I get that a lot, you know. And not just from J.

But, there were only 32 people in there so it wasn’t that hard. The waitress gave me a ‘guest check’ pad and we wrote down the names of as many candidates as would fit on the front side and I walked to the top of the bar and explained to the first guy what I was doing and then walked all around and told folks to watch out for the pad coming around and to stick the one they were thinking of supporting. And they did.

The room was pretty diverse besides being about 80% male. There were about 12 minorities {7 African Americans, 3 Latino, 2 Indian (the country–I think)}. I met 3 lawyers and one guy that worked in Public Works for the City and the 3 Delaney’s staff members voted. So socioeconomically diverse. Kinda. I guess.

We only had so many lines…so we put the candidates we knew didn’t really have a chance at the bottom under “Other”: Thompson, Paul , Kucinich, etc. It ended up being for Ron Paul. No one voted for the other ‘Others.’

So here’s how it all shook out (this is the order I had them in on the ballot)

Huckabee:  5
Clinton:      6
McCain:     5
Obama:     5
Edwards:   7
Romney:    0
Apathetic: 1
Ron Paul:   3

So in the Tammy poll the results are (drum roll, please):

For the Dems: 18 total votes
Edwards 7
Clinton 6
Obama 5

For the Republicans: 13 total votes
Huckabee  5
McCain  5
Paul 3

The neatest thing was seeing how this little experiment got everyone in the bar chatting with each other about issues and voting and stuff. It was cool.

That was fun. Look out Rasmussen. You want the pulse of SC. Well, here it is.  

:) t