14 August 2011

Michele Bachmann wins Iowa GOP poll Carnival

There are a few things to remember when considering the importance of Rep. Michele Bachmann won the Ames straw poll Saturday. You do not cast a vote is a registered voter - just a resident of Iowa more than 18 years holding a $ 30 ticket and a doll.

Or how the country people of Iowa bused from throughout the state, the band entertained with a list, gave them treats as "hot meat frozen", beat a ticket in hand as if it one, and Bachmann in the case of well-oiled campaign, who drove the bus to the polls in a golf cart.

The first entry was a snapshot of how the United States elect a president in 2011. However, the results of the carnival conservative-a-Palooza on Saturday at Iowa State University campus is limited to the use of Republicans in California.

The results of the intention to show that the campaigns have the strength of the organization to compete at the top candidates, and Bachmann are expected to increase fundraising in the short term.

The native of Iowa who suffered the week of campaigning in Iowa, won 28.5 percent of the vote, narrowly defeating Congressman Ron Paul, R-Texas, who stepped down to 27.6 percent . Former Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota was third with 13.5 percent.

Early elections leading candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the former House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich and former U.S. ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, on the ballot, but barely campaigned. Romney got 567 votes, while Newt Gingrich and Huntsman received only 385 and 69 votes respectively.
Perry write-ins

Governor Rick Perry, who officially began his campaign Saturday in South Carolina, was not on the ballot, but received more votes in writing (718) than the other three are not activists.

The big winner: the Republican Party of Iowa is the largest fundraiser of the year.

In California, where the Republican primary is not until June, Ames is only part of what donors are considered when deciding where to send their support.

"The activists and major donors have been here the court," California Republican Party Chairman Tom Del Beccaro said Saturday. "But what this weekend is not likely to change that in the three coming months. "

Results from Saturday to see "if you can not get to vote for you if you give them meat sandwiches and peach jam, so it's really not much of a campaign," said Harmeet Dhillon, President Republican Party of San Francisco. Bob Schuman, one of San Diego public relations consultant who chairs Americans for Rick Perry, said: "It's probably more cases of (primary next year) in New Hampshire than anything else." He was one of the many actors who have made Perry of Texas has received 718 written vote for them as symbolically defeated 593 to Romney.

The campaigns offer space for large tents across the campus, the placement of Paul upscale $ 31,000 in excess of a high-traffic subway to take.

The country star Randy Travis Bachmann is in the store where supporters were waiting over an hour to enter the survey is air-conditioned space. Friends of the family of Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania distributed the areas of biscuits, canned peach jam at home with his family.

Herman Cain, former CEO of Godfather Pizza, which offers products sliced ​​his former employer and sang a gospel song is backed by former Iowa caucus winner Mike Huckabee.

Cain's choice, "Wait a little longer." Apt, as it was 8 percent of the vote Saturday. Marked better than play guitar McCotters Michigan Representative Thaddeus, only 35 votes on Saturday.

"Let's play a little, and hopefully not too hard," said McCotters after a jam in the long rock staple "Gloria." "And if so, pass."

Only 15 people watched. Both wore T-shirts Ron Paul.
Gifts for voters

As voters across the campus, which is below all over the world conservative. The National Rifle Association gave bright orange hats and stressed that candidates were "gun thieves." A charlatan who offers the opportunity to 32-inch flat screen television to win a trip to the Exchange Bus, sponsored by groups opposed to gay marriage and abortion.

In the afternoon, each candidate spoke on the basketball court in college, but many voters had to vote, may vote at any time before 4 hours after the vote, which was to rub a finger over the blue dye, to deter many voices.

Some were undecided.

"This vote is a heart," said Andrea Archer, a Santorum supporter and professor of nursing who lives three hours away. "Although the conduct here, I did not know where he went."

Ron Marchant Pawlenty offered praise for the barbecue, but the plant workers voted for Paul rolls. However, Mike Baker, a machine operator, to live 25 miles outside of Des Moines, Bachmann voted for "because he understands that we are at the edge of a cliff Constitution. But really, I'm here because is a good place to meet like-minded people. "

Bachmann welcome everyone. Then he said: "It was a large payment to reclaim the land, which began in Iowa is now in 50 states."

It is a fact. President George W. Ames Bush won in 1999, but it was the Rev. Pat Robertson in 1987.

"It was like match play in the NCAA tournament," said David Oman, a former finance director of the Republican Party of Iowa Now "we went to the tournament."

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