Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC released its first commercial in Iowa:
The ad encourages Iowans to write in Texas Governor Rick Perry (and to make the ad just unserious enough, Iowans are instructed to spell the name Parry, “the A is for America.” Good job, whoever had that idea.) in the Ames Straw Poll, which is a “nonbinding” political poll that has less democratic integrity than eeny meeny miney moe but is politically taken more seriously than the primary results of whatever states hold their primaries last.
Fun facts: Admission fee for the Ames Straw Poll is $30. From the Ames Straw Poll website: “Some folks say the Iowa Straw Poll is like the Iowa State Fair – but better because politics is involved.”1
1Iowans quoted here are hypothesized to have either meant “worse” instead of “better” or to not actually be human beings.
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