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Bachmann at the Iowa straw poll on Aug. 13 (Andrea Melendez\/The Register)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

At the Des Moines Register<\/em>, a withering look at the failed presidential bid of Michele Bachmann, including nine reasons she failed. Here\u2019s one:<\/p>\n

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1. Supporter cards remain shelved<\/h3>\n

At the straw poll, about 6,000 Iowans filled out Bachmann supporter cards with their contact information, an invaluable resource for galvanizing a base of activist caucusgoers.<\/p>\n

But the trail went cold for eight weeks when the supporter cards sat in limbo at the national headquarters, said Kent Sorenson, her Iowa chairman until the last week of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Rumblings of staff turnover, in both the state and national ranks, simmered after the straw poll. The national campaign aides demanded the cards be shipped to the D.C. office \u2014 an unspoken attempt to keep them from disappearing into another campaign.<\/p>\n

But by early September, national campaign manager Ed Rollins and national deputy manager David Polyansky, two respected strategists, had left the team \u2014 with a parting reminder that those little cards, a campaign\u2019s bread and butter, were languishing on a desk.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost almost eight weeks of hot contacts,\u201d Sorenson said. \u201cPeople wanted to help, but this communicated that we were not interested in their help.\u201d<\/p>\n

The campaign had by August identified more than 30,000 Iowa supporters, but failed over the course of the summer to remain in contact with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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