http://youtu.be/3Cc5q8PKk8c

Michele Bachmann went up on the air today in Iowa with an ad aimed at August Ames Straw Poll voters. The message is that Bachmann is Iowan through and through — and that she won’t compromise on the debt ceiling. 

It will be interesting to see if Mitt Romney goes up with ads in Iowa, too. He is not competing in the Straw Poll this year to conserve resources, but will he leave the airwaves to Bachmann alone?  What he does will be a good indicator of how much he fears the dark horse upstart.