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!

Tags: 2016 campaign Iowa Caucus Iowa straw poll Jim Geraghty

General

In-N-Out Burger tells San Francisco it won’t ‘become the vaccination police for any government’

Media

Fact-checkers trying to get ahead of ‘miscaptioned’ photos of empty grocery store shelves

Media

New York City Board of Health declares racism a public health crisis

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

In-N-Out Burger tells San Francisco it won’t ‘become the vaccination police for any government’

Fact-checkers trying to get ahead of ‘miscaptioned’ photos of empty grocery store shelves

Washington Post highlights the rarity of zookeepers in the black community

Terry McAuliffe’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad campaign gets WORSE as he flips out during interview, scolds reporter and storms off (watch)

recent stories

In-N-Out Burger tells San Francisco it won’t ‘become the vaccination police for any government’

Fact-checkers trying to get ahead of ‘miscaptioned’ photos of empty grocery store shelves

Washington Post highlights the rarity of zookeepers in the black community

New York City Board of Health declares racism a public health crisis

Terry McAuliffe’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad campaign gets WORSE as he flips out during interview, scolds reporter and storms off (watch)