Stephen Colbert: Michele Bachmann Got 80% Of The Iowa Straw Poll Votes She Paid For

As predicted by many political pundits, Rep. Michele Bachmann won the Iowa Straw Poll this weekend by a relatively wide margin. How did she pull it off? According to Stephen Colbert, the Bachmann campaign may have paid for the win by purchasing tickets to the event and enticing attendees with beef brisket, air conditioning and chairs! He supported this claim with clips of various political analysts making such a claim, before suggesting how this strategy will help her win the general election come November 2012.

Colbert continued by interpreting the weekend events in Iowa and how a certain candidate known as “XXX” was reported on by the Associated Press. Watch the clip below, courtesy of Comedy Central:

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