Having won the Iowa Republican straw poll in August, GOP presidential hopeful U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is having a bit of rearranging on her campaign staff. Political legend Ed Rollins, who led Ronald Reagans re-election effort in 1984, will be stepping down as campaign manager due to health reasons and will serving as a senior adviser to Bachmann.

A little bad weather never put off the Sarah Palin faithful, and so it was Saturday in Indianola, Iowa, as a boisterous crowd of about 2,000 braved driving rain and a muddy field at a tea party rally to hear Palin attack "crony capitalism" and the "permanent political class" that reinforced it. It's destroying the U.S., she said.