President 2012 Iowa GOP Poll Watch: Romney 23% Vs Bachmann 22% Vs. Cain 10%
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
Two-time candidate Mitt Romney and tea party upstart Michele Bachmann are neck and neck leading the pack, and retired pizza chief Herman Cain is in third place in a new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll of likely participants in the state’s Republican presidential caucuses.
The results are bad news for the earnest Tim Pawlenty, a former Minnesota governor who is in single digits despite a full-throttle campaign.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and business executive, claims 23 percent, and Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman and evangelical conservative, garners 22 percent. Neither has done heavy lifting in Iowa.
The rest of the Republican field is at least 12 points behind them.
As, I have said for the past few weeks, this race is boiling down to one between Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann. The only wild cards in the race are whether Texas Governor Rick Perry will run and of course, what Sarah Palin will do. Palin is traveling to Iowa this week for the debut of her documentary.
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Anonymous
I predict here and now that – should Bachmann and Romney continue to lead the pack – the MSM will begin to showcase Governor Weathervane’s ever-shifting positions on various issues to be “reasoned” and “pragmatic;” that he has gravitas, and that her consistency on positions is somehow dogmatic and inflexible.
Whoa, almost forgot about “nuanced.”