Presidential Poll Results: Week Three

For the third week in a row, President Barack Obama came out on top in our incredibly non-scientific poll.

For three weeks, we’ve been asking you which presidential candidate you’re leaning toward, and we’ll keep asking once a week until the March 20 primary election. The idea is to gauge, as best we can, the shifting political landscape of a heated primary.

And man, did that landscape shift last week. Mitt Romney started the week riding high on back-to-back wins in the Florida primary and the Nevada caucus. But on Tuesday, Rick Santorum stunned the Romney campaign by winning all three contests that day: the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and the Missouri primary.

This weekend, Romney rebounded to win the Maine Caucus (barely edging out Ron Paul) and the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll. Paul has taken that poll the last two years running, but decided not to attend this year's conference.

Here on Montgomery Patch, we got 141 votes in last week’s poll. Forty percent of those votes—57 of them—went to Obama. However, that still means 60 percent of the votes went to a Republican, so if the eventual nominee can garner all the votes that went to his challengers, he’ll win. Well, he’ll win this (again) incredibly non-scientific poll.

Here’s how the rest shook out: Mitt Romney took 37 votes, making him the Republican front-runner. Ron Paul came in third with 24, Rick Santorum (despite his three-peat last Tuesday) placed fourth with 18, and Newt Gingrich took last place with only five votes.

Look for our fourth weekly poll tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who voted!