There has, of course, been no talk of this poll. It is broken down into 8 categories, and for each category, participants were to rate each candidate from 1 to 5, with 5 being the best. A supporter emailed in an interesting thought. The criticism always is that these polls aren't scientific. But then, voting itself isn't really, when you think about it.
Voting is a privilege, and one which takes initiative if it is cast in an honorable way.
I think Alan Keyes and Orrin Hatch and Gary Bauer and Steve Forbes have had enough airtime. One of them's going to be the nominee. The contribution made by each of the so-called second tier candidates in the debates has been valuable enough that each of their campaigns is still chugging along. The media and party elitists shouldn't try to rig the primary to suit their high-tone expectations of what a Presidential candidate ought to look like. Voters are supposed to make decisions about which candidates are relevant and which aren't, which is why New Hampshire's first in the nation primary is so important.