To the Editor:
Michele Bachmann received 4,823 votes in the Iowa straw poll (“After Iowa Vote, Republicans Face a New Landscape,” front page, Aug. 15). There are apartment complexes in Manhattan with more people.
Fewer than 17,000 people bothered to vote, which would be a smaller than average crowd for a New York Rangers hockey game. Why is it being covered as if something actually happened?
MICHAEL G. SILVER
New York, Aug. 15, 2011
Note from KBJ: Something did actually happen: Tim Pawlenty got knocked out of the Republican race.
