Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., wants Ames Straw Poll attendees to know one thing: she’s from Iowa. Well, maybe not just that one thing. She also wants them to know that her family is from Iowa and she thinks Iowa is awesome.
Seen as a frontrunner in today’s poll because of unapologetic brand of conservatism, Bachmann is also milking the fact that she was born in Iowa, even though she moved to Minnesota when she was in sixth grade.
“It’s time we had an Iowan in the White House,” Bachmann declared.
At another point, she said, “Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned in Iowa.”
She also told the audience, “In Iowa, we have successfully maintained the chain of liberty. For 150 years, my family has lived in Iowa. I’m the seventh generation Iowan. And every generation has successfully handed the torch of liberty to the next.”
Though she was laying it on thick throughout her speech, voters in early primary states like it when candidates shower them with praise.
