Posted on 12/15/2014 9:53:22 AM PST by GIdget2004
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad has said it many times recently. But each time he says it, he likely makes it more apparent the Republican Party of Iowa has held its final Straw Poll.
“We’ve had discussions,” Branstad said Monday morning of his talks with top party leaders about what could replace the straw poll in 2015.
Branstad several times said it will be up to his party’s state central committee to make the final decision on whether to end the straw poll, a much-watched event his party has held since 1979.
The party holds the straw poll in August in the year preceding the presidential caucuses. Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann won 2011’s event, which may have actually helped to kill future events.
Bachmann became the first woman to win the event in Iowa, a historical moment of fame for the Iowa-born candidate. But she fizzled fast after the event and became little more than a footnote with her eventual sixth-place finish on caucus night.
Bigger names like Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich skipped the event, which can cost candidates hundreds of thousands of dollars for the food, entertainment and transportation.
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Good idea.
TRANSLATION: The RINOs are losing control of it, so it must be stopped.
GOPe does not want Ted Cruz to score an early victory.
Good, it’s a giant waste of time. Don’t replace it, just kill it.
It’s a major fundraiser for the Iowa Republican Party. What’s he going to replace it with?
Given the track record of ISP winners in the big dance I think his opponents WANT him to win it. It’s usually the last victory of the candidate.
Yes, I get the impression from all the press their and all the chattering is it a colossal waste of time and resources on both sides.
Put the primaries on the same day and get it over with
It would make it more difficult for people to vote multiple times.
I have no problem with that, conservatives like Cruz don’t need to be spending precious dollars, people like Bush and Romney would have more than enough bucks to waste, just to get their names in the marquee lights and forcing others to spend limited resources.
Get rid of the IA caucus too. Have a normal primary or it doesn’t count.
Polls like this interfere wth the ability of the GOPe to control the message andfundraising.
If Bachman had showed up with her usual hairstyle and a dark blue skirt and red blazer she would have gone a LOT farther.
Whoever told her to dress all in white and put her hair up in a bun should be flogged.
Not only did she not look like herself, she looked tiny and unimportant next to the others.
Iowa is the second most overrated pissant state in the union. New Hampshire is still number one.
“The RINOs are losing control of it, so it must be stopped.”
That’s the way I read the article.
ditto!
Rove, Priebus, Bransted, McConnell, Boehner and the Bushes are talking this up. They don’t want Cruz beating Jeffe by 30 points!
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