Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul won his third straight Conservative Political Action Conference presidential straw poll which is an early indicator of which 2016 candidates conservatives will endorse. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker won approval of 21 percent of the 3,007 while Paul received 26 percent. While the poll is an early sign of likely conservative candidates, it rarely proves an accurate indicator of who will win the Republican presidential nomination. Paul's father, Rep. Ron Paul, won the straw poll in 2011. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the nomination the following year. Romney won the straw poll in 2007 and then fell to Sen. John McCain in the 2008 primaries.
