Iowa Republican state chair says it’s time to change Straw Poll
For years, veteran political scribes and even some politicians have blasted the Iowa Straw Poll, traditionally held every August in the year before the following year’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. Generally it’s been decried as a media-driven event that places way too much significance on the results (we all saw how Michele Bachman’s “win” in 2011 helped her out the next year). “A delightful fraud,” the Chicago Sun-Times Roger Simon called it earlier this year. It’s also been blasted as a pay-for-play deal, with campaigns having to…
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