Bachmann Rigged Iowa Poll by Buying “At Least” 4000 Votes

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Aug 15, 2011

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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is being called the “Queen of the Straw Poll” after her victory at the Iowa straw poll yesterday for the GOP presidential nomination.

Bachmann, who finished with 4823 votes, narrowly beat second-place finisher Congressman Ron Paul who collected 4671 votes.

The Ames poll, although important because of the early significance of Iowa in the primaries, is nonbinding and unscientific.

AFP reported that “It has been criticized as playing too heavily in favor of candidates that are well financed, since their campaigns can buy the $30 tickets for their supporters to attend and presumably vote in their favor.”

The Ames event was considered to be a Republican fundraiser, yet Bachmann’s campaign bought and “handed out at least 4,000 free tickets to supporters.”

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Therefore, Bachmann appears to have rigged the vote at a minimum direct cost of $120,000 to her campaign. It’s unclear whether any of the other candidates engaged in this same behavior.

Another anomaly with the vote surfaced this morning when it was discovered that 218 votes went unaccounted for. In other words, these votes were in the overall tally but not registered to any of the candidates.

One would think the media would attempt to uncover the discrepancy given the razor thin 152-vote margin between Bachmann and Paul.  However, so far, they’ve been content to call her the “queen” of the event.






 
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44 Responses to “Bachmann Rigged Iowa Poll by Buying “At Least” 4000 Votes”

  1. Whosoever watches MSM is a willful idiot and that amounts to the majority of the votes that are diebold rigged to begin with…everyone on this site supposedly knows that the POTUS is appointed and not elected but reason goes out the door even with infowarriors when it comes to making an idol out of someone including RP.
    I am convinced voters are the most deluded people on the planet falling for another “hope and change” POTUS. Maybe if everyone taps their heels together 3 times and says “i wish i was home i wish i was home” it would be just as effective.

  2. Pathetic how you fat ass Americans think Ron Paul is going to become President. The Fed will simply blow his head off as they did with JFK. Shame on you fat hogs!

    • You might be right, but a true patriot is willing to give his life for his country. Paul knows what the risks are. If we all just cowered in fear, nothing would get done and the NWO would win be default.

    • Don’t be mad that you have no food to eat and can’t get fat if you wanted so stay on your own coutrys chat borads so where do you live so I can talk crap about your second place county that has no more fight in it because there is nothing but cowards in it.From a real american that will kick your ass because I can.

  3. Bachmann is a disgrace. She’s crazy, a hypocrite, and probably corrupt as hell. It’s a disgrace that she’s crowding Paul who actually could win this when Bachmann has NO chance with an American public that’s still got an IQ slightly above room temperature. Bachmann and Palin should both retreat to their respective holes and flush it next time. And I say this as a woman.

  4. Just looking at her you can see the corruption oozing out of every pore on her skin. And the smile is so false it looks like she is saying something with clenched teeth behind the smile, I wonder what she would be saying ?

  5. The MSM is controlled by those that are against our US Constitution. Question: Where did obama pop out of? What is his history What about his grades at college, his selective service records, his legal place of birth… If the Media was concerned for the strength of our nation, and Middle class Americans wouldn’t you think that all these questions should have been ongoing by the media BEFORE the elections until they were all answered and backed up with reliable proof.? Answer: TURN OFF YOUR TV !!! Go to reliable sources on the internet to get your information about politicians running for office. DO NOT TRUST THE MSM!!!

  6. American dream is just a false hope for the vast majority of people. Bankers own the vast number of working poor in America. poor people do not own properties, homes in America. they work like a donkey just to make ends meet, live in fear of IRS, do not have health care. Poor don’t have access to higher education. public schools operated by Zionist professors are designed to be a failure for non white and non Jewish students. society mocks at the misery of the working poor. they work long hours for little pay that is not enough to support a family. It’s akin to living life like a prisoner of war, means; if you stop working you die. it’s lesser than indentured slavery. this is the country media advertize as the best country in the world where we have no say in political process. we never had a participatory democracy. every election year, people have the excuse to vote for same old garbage politicians because people are very racist and they like the very war like, xenophobic culture that exist. America keeps on invading countries and keeps on robbing people off their wealth. America pours billions in Israel every year as if people here have enough money to live a decent life. what we actually have is a scientific form of slavery.

  7. If it only cost 120,000 Federal Reserve Pesos to win it I’m surprised Obama bin Soetoro didn’t win it, after all he and his henchmen are just printing the stuff like drunken sailors.

  8. We found out a long time ago that everything about an election is rigged. They all do it. Just have the fucks fill out a job application like everyone else does and have a consitutional sheriff hire the best person for the job. That’ll end all the bs about elections. I mean if you have fill a job position that would be a better way of doing it.

  9. All of the top 4 finishers were giving away tickets for free or a reduced price and free bus rides to the event. Including Ron Paul. Interestingly about an hour before the tally was announced Fox News said the Bachman campaign was bragging about giving away close to 6000 tickets. So she had a lot of people taking tickets and then voting for someone else. I’d say 90% of the people there had their ticket paid for by a campaign, it’s just part of the event.

    • I was thinking the exact same thing. Its funny if she did give away that many tickets and only got 80% of them to vote for her. That and I’m sure she had a ton of votes from people only interested in going to the Randy Travis concert at her tent. RP I know gave away discounted tickets, and you had to sign up for it before July 4th I believe to get them discounted. (didnt hear anything about Ron giving away free tickets although he may have)

  10. It’s her home state it’s no surprise that she won. Lately though it’s appearing more and more that she’s turning into Sarah Palin 2.0 with the media.

    Sarah Palin is a spy. A Coup d’etat began with Sarah Palin’s run for office in the 2008 presidential election. Everything about Sarah is a complete and total fabrication.

    She was planted as McCain’s running mate for a reason. If you think McCain and Sarah planned on “reforming Washington” by getting elected you’re wrong. In addition when a Coup happens the military doesn’t announce it on the front page of the news. They try and keep a lid on it.

    Whether you believe it or not it’s the truth. Obama is not the president, he’s the acting president. He disappeared for 2 weeks after his election win only to reappear looking exhausted sitting next to John McCain, with a bad poker face, for a press photo shoot. Obama is now a Pentagon puppet.

    Learn what Osama, Obama, Biden, Bin Laden, the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists, and Sarah Palin had to do with the last presidential election and the military’s overthrow of our government. Search ElectNoMoreSpys.blogspot

    • “Accompanied by disabled Iraq war veteran and losing 2006 congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth, President-elect Barack Obama went to The John F. Kennedy War Memorial at Chicago’s Soldier Field this morning for a wreath-laying ceremony.” – November 11, 2008

      So I guess Obama didn’t really “disappear for 2 weeks immediately following the election”, as your website claims.

      blogs . abcnew s. com / politicalpunch / 2008 / 11 / obama-on-11-11 . html

    • “Watch Barack Obama’s first Press Conference November 7th after becoming President. See the video of Obama’s press conference below.

      Here’s the video of Obama’s first Press Conference as President on November 7, 2008.”

      stupidcelebrities . net / 2008 / 11 / 07 / obama-press-conference-nov-7-2008-video

      Looks like Obama did anything but “disappear” after his election.

    • I completely agree. Palin has always disgusted me. She’s a complete egotist, hypocrite and cheap crook. She’s chiseled her way into politics and then backstabbed most of the fools who helped get her there. She’s absolutely despicable. I say this as a woman. I believe her role in the 2008 election was to GUARANTEE that McCain (whom I also despise) would not be elected, and that Obama would be. If she had not been on the ticket, McCain would have won.

  11. This was a case of home field advantage. Nothing like winning a poll on the way to a family reunion.

  12. Ron Paul has been all over FOX this weekend you lying fucktards. Everyone knows who he is.

    • Did you check out the comments made below from Germany and Australia? You’ve got a nasty mouth!

  13. Um…this is how Straw Polls work.

  14. Read the article. If Bachmann “rigged the vote”, then so did every single other candidate; including Ron Paul.

  15. To be fair I and 3 of my friends recieved 4 free tickets from the Ron Paul campaign.(of course we all voted for Ron) Most of the canidates were giving away free tickets and bus rides to the straw poll so it only wasnt a Bachman thing.

  16. Sorry Michelle, but I think you promote female slavery in a roundabout way. If anyone caught her interview on ‘Face the Nation’ yesterday, you’d know what I mean. Look it up watch it.

    She believes a woman should be submissive to her husband, and this is the same thing as respect for each other? Um, I believe that a marriage is something NOT to be dominated by one or the other, but mutual in decision making. Who enters into a partnership to become a slave/obey, or to be dominated? Is that where she would lead this nation?

    Man is the ‘head of household’ for his masculine qualities, which enable him [physically] to be able to protect his family. The kind of submissiveness [respect] which she indicated, says that a wife should “OBEY” her husband. That is a very dangerous kind of [false Christian] way of thinking, in my opinion. It sounds more like programming.

    Fyi, they also raised 23 foster children. That makes a decent income too. And as parents, they both should have a say in that decision making; especially when it comes to raising children.

    This is just my opinion, but I know someone who is in that kind of relationship. She also is extremely unhappy, and a hypocrite. Her family is ‘supposed’ to be Christian based, but it is all messed up. Sad.

    • I am not a Bachman supporter (actually I am a proponent of state secession, but to my point) your innane comments regarding the intentions of another person’s heart, evidence that you are a both self-righteous and small-minded. First, to obey Scripture, though not popular or politically correct these days, is above reproach from you or me. Two people, though both qualified drivers cannot drive the car, one must take leadership. It does not dimminish the other. Her relationship with her husband, and her response to her conscience are neither yours, mine nor anyone else’s business. Second, while there have been abuses, one would certainly immagine that the Bachmans did not house/raise foster children for money, they did it out of compassion. How many have you helped? Thirdly, you evidently have strong psychic ability to label someone ‘unhappy’ or a ‘hypocrite,’ since that would indicate the ability to discern the human heart. So I label your comment as just another, vacuous, hateful comment…sadly, this is the kind this site often draws.

      • Was it really compassion? Or was tax incentives? As you said you can’t read her mind.
        Where are the 23 now?

      • Blockade Runner said:

        “…your innane comments regarding the intentions of another person’s heart, evidence that you are a both self-righteous and small-minded.”

        Pot or Kettle?

      • If this nut Bachmann truly believes that a wife should be submissive to her husband, than she CANNOT run for office in her own name because she will obviously be doing what her HUSBAND wants. If they want someone to run for office in that woe begotten family, HE should run.

    • You stated: “I believe that a marriage is something NOT to be dominated by one or the other, but mutual in decision making.” Unfortunately, this perverse view of marriage and family government is widely accepted in today’s culture; it also goes a long way in explaining why our legal system is so screwed up. This politically correct view of marriage artificially and fraudulently places civil government in control of the family. For example, if a husband and wife can’t agree on some important issue facing the family, either spouse may petition the State to step in to decide the disputed issue and, thereafter, bind the parties to the court’s opinion. In effect, this view of marriage and family places the State in the position of head of household. Family is thus rendered a mere creature of the State, void of any God given rights, duties, and authority. In truth, shared headship of the family leads first to domestic anarchy and then ultimately to State imposed tyranny. Federalist Paper #70 presents a well-reasoned argument against joint headship, or rule by committee, of a governing body, which can easily be applied to the family household. Some of our most basic liberties have been lost under a progressive scheme designed to sabotage marriage and destroy the natural sovereignty of family government. A worldview that places husbands and wives on equal footings in marriage and family government is destructive to the general welfare of the nation and ordered liberty.

    • Just began some research on Michele B. The foster childen cited were actually girls who had various emotional problems; some had eating disorders, for example, and were placed in the care of the Bachmanns who received over $l00 thousand dollars from gov funds, some were Medicaid payments. The girls were only there for a short period of time–some only a few months, I take it. (Congresswoman Bachmann, as a GOP operative, has defunding Medicaid on her list of things to do. Irony catches up with fibbing politicians.

      Backmann’s husband has a Ph.D in psychology and they own a facility in MN; one goal within their program is to degay gay people. Their education is from religious institutions such as Oral Roberts U. and the law school run by Pat Robertson, Regency School in Carolina. Now if you know anything about these two preachers, you might assume they have an agenda. And that agenda is motivated by fundamentalism. So the GOP is on a course to use religion once again to trick the electorate into believing God is paramount in their political philosophy.

      This is the main reason for the separation of church and state; religion and politics are a deadly brew from any point of view. Recall GW Bush’s conversion just before his political ambitions were realized. Now think back to his administration’s eight-year reign of terror against the American people; and recall he cited his “strict constitutionalist” mantra throughout his campaign for president; Bachmann is parroting the same schpiel. And Perry will follow a similar duplicitious road when sprinting from Austin to D.C. Ron Paul may be the only answer.

  17. How come no one mentions that the Constitution never refers to the President as “she”?

    The Constitution needs to be amended to allow a woman President.

    So why waste time on Bachmann?

    • Article. II.

      Section. 1.

      No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

  18. That’s why everyone needs to start promoting Ron Paul “outside the box”, and stop preaching to the choir. Wear a Ron Paul t-shirt, get a bumper sticker, button, and let everyone you come in contact with, that you pass on the street, or drives behind you on the road, let them see the name ‘Ron Paul’ for President!

    There are two Ron Paul bumper stickers on my website that are PYO (Print Your Own), and they full-size and are free. bumperpress.com

  19. I say we all get together, do a march to Washington and hold signs saying, “RON PAUL TO END IT ALL” signifying he is the only one who can put an end to everything these globalists have started.

  20. All we hear in Australia is Rick Perry Michele Bachmann, no mention at all of Ron Paul…

    FUCK Rupert Murdoch and his globalist cronies.

  21. BACHMAN TURN HER OVERDRIVE

    • She’s just takin’ care of business.

      • And You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet…

        • Lol. I’m not looking forward to it.

      • But when she’s done with you, she’ll just say “give me your money please”, go back to “looking out for #1″, put on her “blue collar”, and split

  22. We never ever hear ANYTHING about Ron Paul here in Germany. Neither on TV nor in the press.
    Because all the Media here are owned by Bertelsmann, Springer, Reuters and a few other globailst
    Rothschild controlled moguls. They are all bought by the globalist oligarchy.
    I pray for Ron Paul to win and it will take nothing short of a miracle for this to happen.

    • Ron Paul is your last chance America!

  23. I live in Australia and let me tell you something….. I have never heard the name Ron Paul in the media over here, 80% owned by the Aussie Rupert Murdoch… so if you don’t believe that they are keeping Ron Paul out of it, you are sooooo wrong.

    Good luck Ron Paul, and if you care for your country, use every piece of your car to advertise what this man stands for, drive all over the towns and cities, write in on your house and do all you can for the last chance to save yourselves….Tell the people what he stands for, cause they aren’t going to find out on the adds in the middle of the football game

  24. scam after scam after scam after scam….. .

    • Giving away free tickets is in no way the equivalent of “buying votes”. Ron Paul also gave away tickets.

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