Posted on 06/12/2015 8:01:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Iowa Republican straw poll, once a staple campaign event for GOP presidential candidates, is vanishing because of waning interest from 2016 hopefuls.
The governing board for the Republican Party of Iowa voted unanimously during a private conference call Friday to drop the event, said state GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann. It was scheduled to be held in the central Iowa city of Boone on Aug. 8.
Republican officials wanted to make sure negativity surrounding the straw poll didn’t hurt Iowa’s traditional place in holding the first votes of the presidential nomination contest, with its leadoff caucuses. Kaufmann said he was particularly concerned that GOP candidates were feeling unnecessary pressure to participate in the event. …
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Our governor for life wanted it gone, so it’s gone. That’s the bottom line.
Sounds like a non problem.....
Besides, we need to get the ethanol out of the gasoline. Maybe Iowa could become a center for a new corn whiskey.
Correctomundo.
BooHoo so they finally realized that whether or not they get their ethanol subsidy shouldn’t really decide the national candidates’ standings.
Iowa = I. Oughtta. Went. Around.
Will hurt Walker the most
I’m not sure. Didn’t Michelle Bachmann win it last time, flop in the caucus and was the first candidate to drop out?
They were afraid the “wrong” candidate would win it.
Any poll in which Ben Carson comes in first or second is obviously a useless poll.
Outside of a financial boom to the area I’m not sure what else it accomplished.
Out of six events it picked the winner:
3 — Iowa Caucus winners
2 — GOP nominee winners
2 — President winners
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