Although official results from the Iowa caucuses won’t be finalized until late Tuesday night, President Barack Obama scored an early victory Monday by winning the most coffee beans.
At the famed Hamburg Inn No. 2 restaurant in Iowa City, customers filled jars with coffee beans at the cash register in what locals have dubbed the Iowa Coffee Bean Caucus, the Press-Citizen reported.
President Obama was the big winner, with 6,442 beans. He also won the unofficial bean-poll in 2008.
Even though Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann will likely come in last Tuesday, she won the greatest support among bean-dropping diners who voted for a GOP candidate, with 1,147. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney rounded out the top three with 847 coffee beans.
The Hamburg Inn invited all of the GOP candidates to meet some of its customers, but only Bachmann, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum paid the restaurant a visit.