*** Bachmann wins Ames straw poll ***

[blogslut]

Just announced

[rsmith6621]

1. Musta Been Hella Good Food...

...served under her tent....Im relieved she wont be on the ballot next November.

[Cleita]

3. Or maybe the petting zoo was just too cute. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

18. we take this woman lightly...

at our own peril.

[Cleita]

2. The world is screwed.

I mean I know there isn't a big choice between crazies but did they have to pick the craziest?

[blogslut]

4. I was pulling for Ron Paul

His fans are such useful little wrenches in the wingnut works.

[Divine Discontent]

7. rarely does their Iowa winner get the nomination. the far right comes to this tent poll they do, so

I wouldn't put too much into it. I think Romney or Perry (still crazy like Bachmann) will be there nominee.

[marmar]

5. An extra crispy bucket of crazy......

[dkf]

9. Lol!

Perfect.

[Tx4obama]

6. All that means is she spent a bunch of money busing 'her' folk in to vote.

The Ames poll is stupid.
It doesn't mean anything.

[Divine Discontent]

11. it's just a silly way to do it. hey, what 1657 people get for coming in for Santorum?

and 385 people got confused and went into Newt's tent by mistake!

:rofl:

[blogslut]

14. I understand

Just the same, it was fun watching the MSM squee all over this thing.

Naturally, now that a "not-serious" candidate won, they'll proceed to tell us how 'meaningless' this poll (that they spent days covering) was.

[elfin]

8. Excellent! The Rethugs never fail to choose

the dumbest and/or craziest. Perry has his wurk cut out fer him to outdo her to git the nomination.

He said "git" or "gittin" endlessly today in his rehearsed speech.

Loony Bachman has better grammar, so she better look out.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Last time it was Mitt.

Once Pat Robertson won it.

[blogslut]

12. Oooh Ron Paul was a very close second

Bachmann 4825

Paul 4671

EDIT: Numbers corrected. Very close betwixt Bachmann and Paul.

[Proles]

13. Her being on the ballot would be a GOOD thing.

Seriously, a crazy person and a sane person?

If they vote the crazy I'll just grab some popcorn and say, "You asked for it." Sure, the smart people would suffer, but at least everyone would learn the hard way.

[white_wolf]

15. What I wanna know is: Was there any write in votes for Rick Parry? With an A for America and Iowa?

[JNinWB]

16. 16,000 votes?

There are more people in my neighborhood.

[Tx4obama]

17. Here are ALL the numbers ...

Ames votes:
Bachmann 4823, Paul 4671, Pawlenty 2293, Santorum 1657, Cain 1456, Perry 718, Romney 567, Gingrich 385, Huntsman 69, McCotter 35


Edited to add links:

http://twitter.com/#!/thinkprogress/status/102512197158182912

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/13/7366544-bachmann-wins-ames-straw-poll