Jim Geraghty documents final moments of now defunct GOP Iowa straw poll [photo]

Posted at 1:37 pm on June 12, 2015 by Doug P.

The GOP’s Iowa straw poll is no more:

MORE: Iowa's straw poll, begun in 1979, was considered an early but unreliable test of campaigns' strength: http://t.co/pC66BrR67W
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 12, 2015

An Iowa Republican Party governing board has voted unanimously to end the decades-long tradition.

National Review’s Jim Geraghty documented the straw poll’s final moments:

Tim Pawlenty, seeing a bit of a leg twitch in the Iowa Straw Poll, fires an extra shot just to be sure. pic.twitter.com/n3WnLzcxVT
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) June 12, 2015

Ha!

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