Rand Paul wins CPAC straw poll; Cruz second, Ben Carson third

The actual CPAC straw poll was, for the fifth time, dominated by young libertarians. No surprise: 78 percent disapproved of “NSA’s use of data collection.” Some kind of surprise: 41 percent wanted to legalize marijuana, 21 percent wanted just medical marijuana legalized, and only 33 percent wanted it to remain illegal. That spoiled the results of the straw poll, which I’ve written below, parenthetically noting the results from 2013.