The Official Ames Straw Poll Thread

[Chieppa1]

Bachman will get all the attention now, and Ron Paul will miss out on 90% of the media attention he could have got.

Winning the strawpoll would have been very significant.

We need to do an instant money bomb to raise ALL the money Ron Paul needs for the next straw poll.

Ron Paul told us if we did not raise 1.4 million dollars there would be a disaster, and it happened.

Dude, this is just my personal opinion, put you're really annoying. Your neg. bs is useless.

I know, I know. YOU told us we needed more money. ONLY you.

 

[mit26chell]

YESSSSS!!

2nd is fawking AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[KingRobbStark]

I hate you Randy Travis!!!!

 

[RonPaulFever]

Matt Strawn completely avoided the question "Can Ron Paul win the caucus?" and spun it towards Bachmann.....so disgusting.

 

[COpatriot]

Frothy finished 4th. For him, that's a surprise.

 

[libertybrewcity]

Statistically we are tied.

 

[r3volution]

you people here that think its over because of a 2nd place straw poll before the actual primary are morons .

 

[SimpleName]

You cannot just write Ron off here. The media will try their best, but people will see now that Ron is a real contender.

 

[Inkblots]

152 votes. So close, and yet so far away...

 

[nocompromises]

omg fox actually asking if paul is now a frontrunner

Watch how they talk about Bachmann all night long.

I cannot believe a woman who voted for the Patriot and the bailouts beat us!

 

[Canderson]

That debate hurt us

 

[opal]

4823 to 4600!!!! That's damned close!

4600.. kind of an even number donchas think? Ya get the feeling they quit counting there? Yeah.. I do lean toward conspiracy theories

 

[Koz]

i think it was 152 votes

 

[libertybrewcity]

you people here that think its over because of a 2nd place straw poll before the actual primary are morons .

^this

 

[sailingaway]

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.

The Minnesota congresswoman narrowly outpaced libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, who had 4,671 votes, and whose red t-shirt-wearing supporters flooded the campus of Iowa State University, and packed the arena when Paul spoke. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty finished third with 2,293, a showing that keeps him in the game for next year’s Iowa caucuses, but had to come off as slightly disappointing.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-iowa-straw-win-20110813,0,1231486.story

And without Randy Travis, or forcing people to vote before they could eat or listen to music. I'm betting that turns up in Politico's write up, they tweeted about it incredulously.

Well congratulations, all!!

And I mean that. We are close, with no Randy Travis, and third place is in an entirely different world of support. And Ron's numbers were rising while Bachmann's were falling.

 

[rajibo]

This is how I am now celebrating this great day for liberty!

 

[TXcarlosTX]

Huck got 2nd and then won the caucus! Im just saying...

 

[JK/SEA]

Thats it. I'm out. Calling Obama campaign now.....


j/k

 

[AmberH]

Fuck 200 votes I should have had my lazy ass calling even more people

 

[Bama Boy]

Great outcome! RP was very close to Bachmann!!! If RP won, the media was prepared to talk about Rick Perry for the next 48 hrs.