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Who will the Iowa Straw Poll make, break?
Gazette Staff/SourceMedia
Jul. 11, 2011 7:30 am
For the next month, the 2012 Republican presidential race is all about Ames.
As in Ames, Iowa, home of Iowa State University and one of the quadrennial rites of passage for any Republican presidential contest: the Ames Straw Poll.
http://iowacaucus.com/2011/07/11/who-will-iowas-ames-straw-poll-make-break/
This photo released by CBS News Sunday, June 26, 2011, shows Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaking on CBS's 'Face the Nation' in Washington. Bachmann told CBS that she is gratified by the Iowa Poll that was released Saturday and showed she was in a statistical tie with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for first place among likely Iowa caucus-goers. Romney had 23 percent support while Bachmann had 22 percent. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher)