The state Attorney General campaign of Assembly Majority Leader Alberto Torrico, D-Newark, today trumpeted its “overwhelming victory” in a straw poll taken yesterday by the San Mateo County Democratic Party.

The county party, meeting at the South San Francisco Conference Center, heard from candidates for several statewide offices or their surrogates.

County committee chairman David Burruto said Torrico and former Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly were the only candidates for Attorney General who were there in person, while San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris sent a surrogate to speak on her behalf and Assemblyman Ted Lieu, D-Torrance; Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara; and former Los Angeles City Attorney (and 2006 Attorney General Democratic primary candidate) Rocky Delgadillo were absent and unrepresented.

The straw poll’s results:

Torrico — 85 votes (51.2%)

Harris — 44 votes (26.5%)

Kelly — 31 votes (18.7%)

Lieu — 5 votes (3%)

Delgadillo — 1 vote (0.6%)

Nava — 0 votes

Now, this is about as far from a scientific survey that you can get: Bless their souls for not being apathetic, but it’s a bunch of party apparatchiks from a pretty liberal county, not a representative sampling of the party’s sentiment statewide. And it’s only 166 votes, too small a sample to mean much of anything.

That said, Torrico – whether by virtue of actually showing up and pressing the flesh, or of being an accomplished party player himself, or of being a better candidate – did have a wide victory margin in a county right next to both his and Harris’.