--- ---  # Real TIME: Rand Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll  by [Julia Lull](https://time.com/author/julia-lull/)  ## Julia Lull Mar 1, 2015 6:31 PM UTC   by [Julia Lull](https://time.com/author/julia-lull/)  ## Julia Lull Mar 1, 2015 6:31 PM UTC Rand Paul won the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference for the third year in a row on Saturday. The Senator from Kentucky won with 26% of the vote. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker followed closely behind with 21%, and Jeb Bush and Chris Christie finished fifth and 10th, respectively. Watch #RealTIME for more on the final day of CPAC, and [read more here](http://time.com/3727432/rand-paul-scott-walker-cpac/). Real TIME: Rand Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3727650/cpac-straw-poll-rand-paul-scott-walker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3727650/cpac-straw-poll-rand-paul-scott-walker/"},"headline":"Real TIME: Rand Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll","datePublished":"2015-03-01T18:31:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:49:11.699Z","description":"Rand Paul won the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference for the third year in a row on Saturday. The Senator from Kentucky...","url":"https://time.com/3727650/cpac-straw-poll-rand-paul-scott-walker/","keywords":["Chris Christie","Rand Paul","Scott Walker","jeb bush"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12222c9ddd646327/69878198428a9e5242cc7615/wordpress.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Lull","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-lull/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12222c9ddd646327/69878198428a9e5242cc7615/wordpress.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"wordpress.jpg","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3727650/cpac-straw-poll-rand-paul-scott-walker/","name":"Real TIME: Rand Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll"}}]}] ```