BaconTown 2015 Presidential Ballot Surprises

The KIIC Bacon Bit Ballot at Saturday's BaconTown. Republican front runner Donald Trump had the field covered..

The KIIC Bacon Bit Ballot at Saturday’s BaconTown. Republican front runner Donald Trump had the field covered..

Sanders edges Clinton. Carson and Fiorina with strong support

The KIIC Bacon Bits Ballot at the 2015 BaconTown event Saturday in Ottumwa showed hope for a few lesser known candidates. BaconTown is a bacon and brewfest featuring more than 30 vendors and 53 bacon items – all using Cargill Pork supplied bacon. In the Bacon Bits Ballot, “Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders ran neck and neck with Hillary Clinton all night but it looks like Sanders may have come out ‘a bacon bit’ ahead” according to Joe Milledge, owner of KIIC-FM and organizer of the BaconTown event.

On the republican side, organizers had to go after more mason jars after Donald Trump’s jar filled up and spilled over during the event. Finishing second was Ben Carson. Many of the other candidates failed to register much on the bacon bits measuring scale.

Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders edged out Hillary Clinton in the 2015 Bacon Bits Ballot.

Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders edged out Hillary Clinton in the 2015 Bacon Bits Ballot.

Attendees would have cast their teaspoon of bacon bits following Thursday’s Republican Fox debate, and after much of the news fallout concerning Trump’s dust up with Fox’s Megyn Kelly. Milledge was surprised at the interest in the poll. “We didn’t know what to expect, but people seemed to be engaged and really wanted to participate.”

Here are the official, unofficial results – in grams of bacon bits, in the KIIC-FM Bacon Bits Ballot at BaconTown!

Democrats:

Sanders: 446
Clinton: 444
Webb: 286
O’Malley 286
Chaffey: 280

Republicans:

Trump: 912
Carson: 396
Fiorina: 352
Paul: 316
Huckabee: 310
Rubio: 306
Cruz: 296
Kasich: 292
Bush: 290
Christie: 290
Walker: 288
Gilmore: 288
Graham: 286
Jindal: 284
Pataki: 280
Perry: 280
Santorum: 270

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