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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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I have what I consider to be a stupid question.... How many people have been elected POTUS after winning the Iowa Straw poll throughout it's history ????? 1- 2???? So why rig it when it means absolutely nothing to begin with???
#7. To: CZ82, *Ron Paul for President* (#6)
Jorge Bush was the only one to make prez after winning Ames. IMO it's helped Bachmann quite a bit. She's in the news and being taken more seriously at least. Whether that translates into the GOP nomination remains to be seen. I'm guessing that she won't get it, and one of the more devout liberal globalists like Mitts or Ricky Reconquista will lose to hObama. I like Bachmann better than those two, which isn't much of an endorsement, since I despise them both.
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Replies to Comment # 6. How many people have been elected POTUS after winning the Iowa Straw poll throughout it's history ??
Over the 32 years of the Ames Straw Poll's history, only once has the winner become the Republicannominee for President. This happened in 1999, when George W. Bush won the Straw Poll and would go on to become the GOP nominee and our country's 43rd President.
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