Michele Bachmann beat out Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney and a slew of other Presidential hopefuls yesterday at in the Ames Straw Poll held in Iowa. The Daily Mail reports,
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann won a test vote of Iowans on Saturday, a show of strength five months before the state’s caucuses kick off the GOP presidential nominating season.
Out of 16,892 votes cast, Bachmann took 4,823 votes, just ahead of Ron Paul’s 4,671. Tim Pawlenty, who essentially went all in on the straw poll to change the narrative of his struggling campaign, got just 2,293 votes, less than half of his fellow Minnesota lawmaker.
‘We just sent a message that Obama will be a one-term president,’ Bachmann said after her victory.
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SOURCE: Daily Mail
