Only 1244 straw poll votes cast.

Snyder had to have a victory to prove he is a REAL candidate.  
The poll can be used to show MIGOP that a candidate is motivated, well organized, well funded, and very serious about intentions of winning in Nov. Rick has proved that.
He also needed serious name recognition - and now he has it.  Bouchard, Cox, and Hoekstra really did not need to win this poll, this poll was really for Snyder and George to get on the political radar screen.

Rick has a good option that stands out from the other candidates - making citizens of Michigan the 'Customers' of Lansing.  An attitude that Lansing SERVES the Taxpayer.  His ideas of measuring outcomes from State Government is good one - as long as the right measures are used.  

Measuring Lansing is a 'next step' up from the Transparency issue that Terri Land accomplished so well at the SOS office.  We need more performance measurements.