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Bachmann Makes Hay in Iowa

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Posted on Aug 14, 2011
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A straw poll win does not guarantee Bachmann victory in the caucuses. Mitt Romney won the poll in 2007 and lost to Mike Huckabee five months later.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann beat out other Republicans to win the Iowa straw poll in Ames on Saturday, receiving 4,823 of the nearly 17,000 votes cast. She leaped far ahead of party favorite Mitt Romney, R-Mass., but barely topped U.S. Rep. Ron Paul. And the tea party darling’s celebration was dampened as Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his run for president that same day. —ARK

Los Angeles Times:

Michele Bachmann captured the famed Iowa straw poll in Ames Saturday, reaching a high-profile benchmark in her meteoric rise to a top-tier presidential candidate.

Bachmann made history as well, becoming the first woman to win the event. She received 4,823 votes out of the almost 17,000 votes cast. The turnout was a significant leap over four years ago but didn’t approach the record of more than 23,000 votes cast back in 1999.

... Still, in spite of Bachmann’s victory, the poll came on the day that Texas Gov. Rick Perry declared that he, too, will mount a presidential run, setting up a showdown in Iowa over the social and fiscal conservatives that dominate the caucuses here.

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By omop, August 15, 2011 at 7:41 am Link to this comment

By declaring that Ms. Bachmann “captured” the straw poll in Iowa by
getting 27% or thereabouts Truthdig is guilty of malapropisms.


  After all she only beat Congressman Ron Paul by 1%.

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By prisnersdilema, August 15, 2011 at 6:24 am Link to this comment

I was hoping for Ron Paul, the only man who could destroy the current Republican fundamentalist party…but it was close…

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By SteveL, August 14, 2011 at 7:20 pm Link to this comment

Congresswoman Michele (Creationist, don’t care if the U.S defaults) Bachmann
wins.  Now there is some real deep thinking Iowa.

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By Queenie, August 14, 2011 at 12:54 pm Link to this comment

Yup. Iowa. Hog heaven. Big fucking deal. Let’s see how this sow polls on the East or West coast.

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By raja1031, August 14, 2011 at 12:41 pm Link to this comment

Since winning the Ames straw poll is almost a 100% guarantee of failure to get the nomination, this is good news.  There’s almost no chance this bimbo will be president.

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By mackTN, August 14, 2011 at 10:55 am Link to this comment

This is one scary person.  After watching her on the sunday talk shows, I am
amazed at what the interviewers let her get away with.  Cenk Uguyr would not
have let her get away with anything. 

She was asked if she would hire a gay person?  How about, has she ever hired a
gay person?

How about, what kind of pay and benefits does she & her husband pay her own
employees? 

Why let her off on the debt ceiling/default issue.  She claims that she had a plan
on how to pay the bills of the U.S. without raising the debt ceiling.  Okay, spell
out that plan.  Get someone from the ratings agency to say that her plan would
not have led to a downgrade.

Ask her how she has demanded submission from her husband that is equal to
his demands of her.

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By PatrickHenry, August 14, 2011 at 9:14 am Link to this comment

The only way she got the votes she did was to buy 4000 ticks at $30.00 each and give them to her supporters.

Ron Paul smoked her in the online poll 44% to 10%.

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