Sentence examples for straw vote from inspiring English sources
STRAW VOTE This one's the winner.
One increasingly popular tactic is the informal poll or straw vote.
He won a straw vote in the party caucus by 70 to 30.
The council's action was only a preliminary straw vote and is not binding.
"That's just a straw vote of people who come in here.
Mrs. Karageorges said the straw vote should clarify positions on a long-simmering issue.
They took a few straw votes, but those votes were "so close as to be meaningless," one committee member said.
When the United States voted against him in the council's preliminary straw votes, it became clear to all the membership that Washington would not change course.
Its famous straw votes successfully predicted the result of the presidential elections after 1920, and its highly publicized wrong prediction of the outcome of the 1936 election played a decisive part in its collapse.
Carson is a hot commodity on the right-wing speaking circuit and has fast become a leading candidate, winning straw votes at conservative gatherings and rising in public polls.
The Daily News Poll on Sun day had showed Mr. Buckley with 37percentnt of the straw votes, Mr. Ottinger with 30 and Senator Charles E. Goodell, Re publican‐Liberal, with 24.
