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
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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
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) June 12, 2015
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