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Title: Bachmann Rigged Iowa Poll by Buying "At Least" 4000 Votes
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Activist Post
URL Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2011/08 ... igged-ames-poll-by-buying.html
Published: Aug 15, 2011
Author: Activist Post
Post Date: 2011-08-15 10:36:47 by Hondo68
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Keywords: rigged the vote, 4,000 free tickets to supporte, cost her $120,000
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Comments: 27
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is being called the "Queen of the Straw Poll" after her victory at the Iowa straw poll yesterday for the GOP presidential nomination. Poster Comment: I'm surprised that she could find 4000 Iowa residents that could be bought that cheap ($30). She must have gone down to the union hall.
Bachmann in Iowa
Bachmann, who finished with 4823 votes, narrowly beat second-place finisher Congressman Ron Paul who collected 4671 votes.
The Ames poll, although important because of the early significance of Iowa in the primaries, is nonbinding and unscientific.
AFP reported that "It has been criticized as playing too heavily in favor of candidates that are well financed, since their campaigns can buy the $30 tickets for their supporters to attend and presumably vote in their favor."
The Ames event was considered to be a Republican fundraiser, yet Bachmann's campaign bought and "handed out at least 4,000 free tickets to supporters."
Therefore, Bachmann appears to have rigged the vote at a minimum direct cost of $120,000 to her campaign. It's unclear whether any of the other candidates engaged in this same behavior.
Another anomaly with the vote surfaced this morning when it was discovered that 218 votes went unaccounted for. In other words, these votes were in the overall tally but not registered to any of the candidates.
One would think the media would attempt to uncover the discrepancy given the razor thin 152-vote margin between Bachmann and Paul. However, so far, they've been content to call her the "queen" of the event.
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Did you see this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44142133/ns/politics-decision_2012/#.TkkyaHPye9Q
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest But Bachmann did not enter the venue until she had been assured by a campaign staffer that the lighting had been changed, NBC News' Jamie Novogrod reported. The stage was dramatically brighter following the change from the Perry campaign’s Tungsten lights to Bachmann’s HMI lights, witnesses said.
After she was finished speaking, Bachmann signed autographs from the stage, Politico said.
The music sound level was also raised for Bachmann’s entrance and exit, which irked one of the event organizers.
"We had a couple speakers scheduled to speak after her, and we were going to do our big ask for our fundraiser, but as soon as she was done, the music blasted up, she started signing autographs, and … people just started leaving," the organizer, a GOP official who was not named, told NBC News.
"So two speakers missed their chance to speak, and we missed our (chance) to ask the Republicans here for our fundraising — extra money that we needed to carry for the caucus," the organizer added. 'Like she was Madonna or something'
The contrast did not go unnoticed by local Republican activists, who traditionally value having direct contact with the candidates in their no-frills state contests.
"She didn't sit down to visit with us and eat with us," attendee Mel Shaw, 57, told the U.K.'s Telegraph newspaper. "She came into the room like she was Madonna or something, a big star appearing before all us little people. She didn't want to answer questions. That's not the way we do politics here."
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