on. joining us is bachmann campaign press secretary, alice stewart. thanks for joining us right now. great to be with you. yesterday michele bachmann had a town hall meeting, donald trump appeared via telephone conference on that but there was no endorsement from him at that time. meanwhile. mitt romney is being endorsed by people like chris christie. isn t the gulf of the top tier candidates just that, and congressman bachmann here growing larger? endorsements are fantastic. it s great to have endorsements from people like chris christie, but it s more important to have the votes. as you mentioned, august 13th we won the straw poll, which is the first good indicator of how a candidate stands with the open electorate, as opposed to other straw polls have been with a specific group. since that time we have expanded our operations in iowa.
their logic is that s been working for them thus far, so they will keep allowing it to work that way. what we have seen since the beginning is that outside groups will plan protests, rallies, demonstrations outside groups that have similar interest to occupy wall street groups. then they will join forces. that s what we saw with the labor union rally that was big a few weeks back. today there will be a protest auction at sotheby s, that is not being organized by occupy wall street but they are expecting support from the occupy wall street group. that s the kind of thing we ve seen happen and that we expect to see happen which is outside groups with similar interests planning events so they can hop on. another question we have been asking are what do you want? what are your goals? they are holding daily think-tank meetings where they can sit around talk about the ideas and issues that are most important to them. they have an idea box where people can come by and write on
a note card what they think is most important. they are doing this so they can get a better sense of what s important to the people gathered here. this is a group that governses by consensus. nothing gets done or officially issued unless the entire group agrees. so they re trying to get to a point where they can figure out what s important to everyone and determine how to best move forward from there. i heard they discuss some of these issues in what is called the general assembly. sometimes they have hundreds or thousands of people there. i can t imagine how challenging that might be. thank you. new hampshire now stands alone as the state with the only unscheduled primary. last night iowa republican party officials voted to hold their state caucuses on january 3rd. they were ridge faultily scheduled for february 6th. the chaos all started late september when florida officials moved the date of their primary to january 31st. what does rick perry need do to win support in tonight s
top occupation of the 1 percenters, executive and managers. about 1 in 3 of the folks who are the top 1%. the second group in the top 1% are those of medical background. the medical background includes doctors, as well as those who might be family practitioners. those individuals are also about 1 in 6 of those in the top 1%. now, let s look at the third group. it s financial professionals. now, the financial professionals are the group that the occupy wall street have been focusing on. only about 14% of that 1%, of that top group. lower in the ranking than what occupy wall street occupiers might think. one group not heavily targeted yesterday is congress, but they might be soon with this fact. media net worth for a member of congress is just over $900,000, with a good number worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
it was interesting to see over the weekend, we saw a 40-something-year-old accountant in a suit showing up saying everybody this thenks these protesters are grungy people who don t take showers, but i m here because i m concerned about my future, my job and that of my children. certainly a diverse group. michel michelle, thank you. in new york, the focus has been called on the top 1%. though they have not had a united message, they zeroed in on that idea. so who are they talking about, the 1%. if this is all the people in the u.s., if you were to focus in, the group that occupy wall street is focusing in on now is the 1%, right there, in the black and yellow, that one box. up to this point they have been faceless. we have done a little digging and found out who they are the