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GOP Presidential Front Feels Dramatic Shake Up

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By NPR Staff

Published August 15, 2011 at 12:00 PM EDT

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., holds up a newspaper saying that she won the GOP Straw Poll as she speaks at the Black Hawk County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner in Waterloo, Iowa, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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