Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann wins tight race in Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS – Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, the Tea Party champion and failed Republican presidential nomination candidate, secured a fourth term by winning a very tight race for re-election against Democrat challenger businessman Jim Graves early on Wednesday.

Bachmann led Graves by 3,256 votes - or just under one percentage point - out of more than 351,000 votes cast in the Minnesota 6th Congressional District with 98.2 percent of precincts reporting, according to unofficial state elections returns.

In a statement released to NBC News, the Congresswoman said: "It has truly been an honor and a privilege to represent the people of Minnesota's Sixth District in Congress, and I am humbled that they have placed their trust in me for another term.

"I pledge to continue to work everyday to create jobs and do everything I can to make life more affordable for Minnesota's families. Our children and grandchildren deserve a future filled with opportunity in a country that is safe and secure, and that's what I'm fighting for in Washington."

A champion of Tea Party backers of smaller government and conservative on social issues such as abortion and gay rights, Bachmann was running in what has been regarded as the most conservative-leaning district in Minnesota.

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A look at the political life of the third-term Minnesota congresswoman who's running for the GOP nomination.

Her bid for the Republican presidential nomination until early in 2012 raised her name recognition nationally, but left her vulnerable to accusations by Graves that she was not representing district interests.

Her remarks, including an insistence on a link between an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Muslim Brotherhood, were denounced by some in her own party.

Bachmann, a former Minnesota state senator, has never won more than 53 percent of the vote in the district and won by only 3 percentage points in the last presidential election year of 2008.

The redrawing of districts after the 2010 census put Bachmann, who lives in Stillwater near the Minnesota border with Wisconsin, outside of the sprawling district that takes in suburbs to the east, north and west of Minneapolis and St. Paul and stretches northwest to include farms and smaller cities.

Friday's Deep Dive features NBC's Luke Russert giving a special look at Michelle Bachmann's uphill reelection battle for her House seat in Minnesota. MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry, Republican strategist Phil Musser, and The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus also join the discussion.

It was the nation's most expensive House race in terms of both money raised and spent by the candidates as of mid-October, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The candidates had raised a total of $22.7 million and spent $20.8 million, the center reported, but Bachmann had outspent Graves by more than 12-to-one.

Bachmann sought to tag Graves, founder of the AmericInn hotel chain and now the head of Graves Hospitality, as a supporter of President Barack Obama's health reform law in television ads early in the campaign.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's attacks against an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prompted Sen. John McCain to denounce her from the Senate floor on Wednesday. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.

Later Bachmann commercials portrayed the congresswoman as focused on the needs of district residents and able to work across party lines to reach goals.

Graves, who describes himself as fiscally conservative, has said there are positives in the Obama healthcare program, but the "heavy lifting" has not yet begun. Graves also has said he believes Bachmann has been ineffective as a congresswoman.

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Bachmann was never humble and you know if her lips are moving she's lying. What a waste !!

  • 82 votes
#1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 8:44 AM EST

but my feeling is - the Tea Party is on its last legs..regardless of her win.

sometimes, we have the strange feeling that we want to see a few barkmans barking up the wrong tree...after all, politics is showbiz for ugly people - it's a reality show.

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The most important things is..Obama re-elected..that's what matters...

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... and Barkman is just a small fish in a small pond.

  • 55 votes
#1.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 8:51 AM EST

Look at it on the bright sight... We will still have our laughs!

  • 47 votes
#1.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:00 AM EST

Some voters vote for a single letter without considering anything else. Bachmann is unqualified to be anywhere near a decision making process. Sadly, a common problem associated with (R).

  • 52 votes
#1.3 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:21 AM EST

I was hoping she would ride off into the sunset. I swear listening to her speak is like listening to nails on a chalk board.

Ed, That is the pot calling the kettle black. Why do you think Jesse Jr. just got re-elected? He had a "D" next to his name. At least Crazy Eyes shows up for work.

  • 24 votes
#1.4 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:22 AM EST

Thew "B"word sure fits for Michelle, Whether it is her name or the "itch" we get whenever she opens her mouth! Her days are numbered! Certainly her career!

  • 20 votes
#1.5 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:23 AM EST

Hard to believe this dangerously insane whackjob is still in any political arena. I guess some parts of USA are just off their nut.

  • 57 votes
#1.6 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:24 AM EST

I'm hoping Graves challenges the count. I know it's expensive, but the same thing happened with Franken and it turned out that the initial count was wrong. I'm a Minnesotan, and Bachmann's in another district but even so, I cringe every time she makes headlines with her kind of crazy.

I'm sure she won't be unemployed. Fox News will be happy to put her on staff.

  • 47 votes
#1.8 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:29 AM EST

Sigh, this is such a disappointment as someone who lives in MN, but not in her district. Her recent Youtube commercial claimed she worked with both parties and was independent (she even annunciated it stupidly). I hope this is a sign of a dying Tea Party, but man am I ever bummed she's still in office. Did these people even WATCH her campaign for the Republican candidacy?

  • 42 votes
#1.9 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:31 AM EST

When people who make less than $200,000.00 vote (R), they vote against their own economic interests. It hurts them and thier families. They need to be educated. They need to be talked to, one one one if necessary, and be shown that the Democratic policies of today, are the Republican policies of yesterday.

The Republicans of today have stepped off the edge and are trying to drag us all with them.

  • 33 votes
#1.10 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:33 AM EST

What a lot of people don't seem to consider, on either side, is how close this election was. Not Bachmann in particular, but the whole election in general. The country is almost equally split in half and several states were very, very close. The electoral college process hides the true margins.

That means there are a lot of people in the country who don't think as you do, whatever side you're on. Instead of dismissing them as whackjobs or whatever, it would be far more helpful (not to mention, mature) to look at what the other side doesn't like in you and address that, if possible. Obviously you'll never satisfy the extremists.

Not everyone who voted for Romney is a Bible-thimping, rightwing nutjob. The question is, what is the Democratic party doing that's turning off half the country? (Or the other way around had Romney won.)

  • 19 votes
#1.11 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:34 AM EST

Glitch caused double post, sorry.

  • 1 vote
#1.12 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:34 AM EST

It's pretty obvious by this story that the education system in MN is in serious need of a complete overhaul. Either that or the cold weather has frozen their brains, but at least she is as far from Florida as she can be (not that we have a great voting record either, remember the RWNJ's helped Ricky Scotty buy his Governor's position too!).

  • 14 votes
#1.14 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:38 AM EST

Hillary/Warren

The shadow of King Grover still looms over the country. He spreads tendrils that threaten to strangle democracy.

  • 19 votes
#1.15 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:46 AM EST

Politics will always have its share of crazy people. Its saddest for those in MN who wanted her gone.

  • 15 votes
#1.17 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:53 AM EST

Hillary: I agree with what you say, the GOP has gotten more "out there" in recent years, but that wasn't really my question. Regardless of the actual positions of the parties, half the country didn't vote for Obama. Why? They can't all be morons (or whatever slur people here prefer). Disinformation from Fox may be part of it, but I don't think half the country watches them.

Ideally we would have a party that appealed to a decent-sized majority. We don't, because we've become polarized, unwilling to look at any viewpoint but our own. Until we grow up a little as a country, our politics will just get dirtier and more uncompromising. That's not good.

  • 14 votes
#1.18 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:59 AM EST

West is not gone yet. Just like with Romney in Florida, results are close enough, that the declaring a victor will not occur until after the military ballots have been included in the total. Florida has a very large military vote.

    #1.20 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:03 AM EST

    Working across the aisle? You mean like wanting to have other members of Congress investigated for un-American ideas? This woman is a loon with one foot in la-la land.

    • 18 votes
    #1.22 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:07 AM EST

    I am dumb-founded. I sincerely believed the folks in Minnesota were smarter than they obviously are.

    • 12 votes
    #1.23 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:08 AM EST

    I am very happy about this. We can use the comic relief she brings every time she appears on our televisions. I would have missed the laughs.

    • 5 votes
    #1.24 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:09 AM EST

    Seriously?? What a twit ~ the gift that keeps on giving. His priority of getting the casinos up and running in Atlantic City while seeming to ignore all of the destructed properties and people around him pretty much says it all. Noblesse oblige would have been welcomed more than slot machines. No one is going to the casinos anyway - probably losing more money than he's making. Tsk. Another big mouth.

    • 10 votes
    #1.26 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:19 AM EST

    If she is representative of her district, I'm sure glad I live somewhere else.

    • 16 votes
    #1.27 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:20 AM EST

    Michelle Bachmann,

    The female incarnation of Mitt Romney, both pathological liar sports who use tax law and government influence to their advantage.

    But, nevertheless she is the chosen filthy mouth piece queen of the tea party.

    • 12 votes
    #1.28 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:25 AM EST

    LOL!!!!

    You really have to laugh at stuff like this, they wanted to vote a "BUSINESSMAN" as President, but not a BUSINESSMAN democratic challenger to Congress!!!

    Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e-'-s!!!

    Did anyone else hear that Donald Trump tweeted last night that a Revolution should be started because Obama won.

    I did see that, and I think the Secret Service should watch this idiot, after all, he has the funds to pay, and support, harm against President Obama!

    • 11 votes
    #1.29 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:42 AM EST

    DB Akron,

    Keep holding on to your bad dreams you will win in your own mind only! I thought Obama was going to be gone today? It is tough to face the reality of defeat!

    • 6 votes
    #1.30 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:58 AM EST

    Winning by less than 1% should send crazy Michelle a message and Allen West also. Brown, Mandel, Mourdoch, Dold, Walsh, Biggert, Akin were all either rejected or given the boot. The message has been sent on immigration, women's issues, the economy, and ending the gridlock getting things done.

    • 7 votes
    #1.31 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:58 AM EST

    Sad day for America that a NUT like Buchmann won, the Queen of the TeaReTarded Party !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 6 votes
    #1.32 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:58 AM EST

    But it is Minnesota. I'm happy to have Bachman wil because she will continue to make the whole GOP look loopy. And knowing Minnesota, if Bachman had lost, some Militia group would have gone scary crazy, so it's best to placate wackos with the knowledge that one corner of the country "knows" that Obama is Kenyan, Benghazi is more important than Iraq, the world is 10,000 years old, and evolution is a lie from the pit of Hell.

    • 7 votes
    #1.33 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 11:25 AM EST

    NEXT - Get the sick Tea Looney tunes out of Congress before they destroy our Country !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 9 votes
    #1.34 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 11:32 AM EST

    Look at it on the bright sight... We will still have our laughs!

    That's what I was thinking.

    What's she going to do, two years from now, when the entire Teabag House contingent walks the plank?

    And walk the plank they will. There's a pattern here, Teabags. Obama has won - twice. End of discussion. You lose. END THE OBSTRUCTION NOW. Either cooperate and acknowledge the will of the majority or get the hell out of the way. If you won't get out of the way, we'll move you.

    Since Boner's House goobers have already promised to keep up their stonewalling, they're asking to be removed in two years. Can't wait. Need a couple of examples, Teabags? Akin. Joe Walsh. Scott Brown.

    You are toast.

    • 6 votes
    #1.35 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 11:52 AM EST

    Barely winning is still too good for that waste of taxpayer money, but at least West and Aiken are gone. I'm pretty happy to see the end of that bully Brown too.

    • 6 votes
    #1.36 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 12:00 PM EST

    The Tealiban is the biggest threat to our freedoms we have today.

    • 6 votes
    #1.37 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 12:05 PM EST

    Bachmann's Brain = Dumplings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Just a little better then Palin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 6 votes
    #1.38 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 12:12 PM EST

    please, someone from Minnesota, tell me why you keep voting for this *****

    • 7 votes
    #1.39 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 12:20 PM EST

    All that is ringing through my head is her annoying voice saying "I'm Michelle Bachmann and I'm running for President" over and freaking over. She is everything wrong with the U.S. Bases her politics on what God told her to do and caters to the most uneducated a$$ holes in this country.

    • 6 votes
    #1.40 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 12:22 PM EST

    AG99, I agree that roughly half the nation disagrees with the left, and we all need to try to work on seeing where the other is coming from, and compromise. What I have a problem with though is that almost all of the "conservatives" (misnomer) I know often repeat the factually-challenged talking points I hear on Fox News as their reasoning for hating Democrats. What I find truly disheartening is a large number of people have no interest in facts, only Dogma. RABID dogma, that refuses to be reasoned with. Case in point: Michelle Bachmann.

    • 7 votes
    #1.41 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 12:23 PM EST

    Michele is losing a lot of her companions in that glass house of hers. She got quite a scare herself. She has never, never, ever reached across the aisle or done anything in a bipartisan way. She is no more more independent than her idol, Grover is. If she doesn't try extending her hand to meet in the middle her arm muscles will atrophy. And when someone extends their hand to her she better quit spitting in it! I can only hope she doesn't wise up. She's an embarrassment to her district, party and the whole state of Minnesota and I want her GONE (since it's not going to be this term, for sure the next one!!)

    • 5 votes
    #1.42 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 12:28 PM EST

    This was my single biggest disappointment of the night, and I don't even live in Minnesota. Sometimes I just can't understand the American voter.

    • 7 votes
    #1.43 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 12:28 PM EST

    Hillary/Warren2016

    Did anyone else hear that Donald Trump tweeted last night that a Revolution should be started because Obama won. trump what a clown and has been. I have nooooo respect for him

    Time for a Secret Service call on The Donald. Maybe he can team up with The Nuge and have a mutual admiration rant on Faux News.

    • 3 votes
    #1.44 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 12:30 PM EST

    Steve in WA-2586156

    This was my single biggest disappointment of the night, and I don't even live in Minnesota. Sometimes I just can't understand the American voter.

    It's that gerrymandered ultra-right district. Most Minnesotans are pretty sane people. Anywhere else in the state she'd already be selling chicken sandwiches at Chick-Fil-A.

    (why did I pick on Chick-Fil-A? Because God loves a tasty chicken sammich)

    • 4 votes
    #1.45 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 1:26 PM EST

    sullyness: I know. It's frustrating to have to deal with such mindlessness and obstinacy, but I've also seen it on the liberal side as well. It's a complete unwillingness to acknowledge anything good in the other's point of view. Some conservative values are the backbone of America, while some liberal values are vital for a free society. It's all about balance, something I've not seen much of online.

    • 4 votes
    #1.46 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 1:30 PM EST

    AG, it's a LOT more prevalent on the right; you can't argue that it's not. The majority of Dems by nature will listen to both sides, but not the GOP! Just look at the results of their boycott the last 4 years. How's that one-term Prez thing working? I was hoping they'd get a little bigger spanking than they got. So far they've only lost a net of 2 senate seats, but they were poised to gain until they revealed who they really are to electorate. Yes, the House is still in the right's favor but they did lose at lease 6 seats (maybe more.) We the people want them to compromise and if they don't, I bet they will lose even more in '14.

    • 3 votes
    #1.47 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 1:42 PM EST

    "AG, it's a LOT more prevalent on the right; you can't argue that it's not."

    I'd have to actually make a tally of comments to sure, but my impression is it's about equal. I've read many comments referring to conservatives as evil incarnate, unAmerican, and how they're ruining this country. Perhaps you don't see the rhetoric from your own side, but as someone who has voted both ways (although not this time), it's clear to me.

    Just look at the comments from this story alone. They're overwhelmingly negative against Bachmann, who admittedly isn't someone I'd support either, but there's no attempt to understand why Minnesotans wanted her, just slurs against their intelligence and so on.

    • 2 votes
    #1.48 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 1:49 PM EST

    I have to agree with the poster who complained about Jackson Jr. getting reelected also, just because of the letter behind his name. As long as either party excuses poor behavior of candidates and refuse to demand complete accountability from BOTH parties, little will change for the better.

    You can't expect the other side to change if the democrats also don't start demanding accountability from their own candidates. Time to end the ignorance and selfishness on both sides of the aisle if we want to see positive changes that benefit the entire country.

    • 3 votes
    #1.49 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 1:54 PM EST

    AG, we the people get very angry while we're watching the do-nothing right congresspeople sit on their hands. But the left congresspeople have had alot more hands out that were left there hanging. Surely you can't deny that!

    • 2 votes
    #1.50 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 2:25 PM EST

    Hannah, I wasn't talking about Congressional dynamics. Frankly, I have no idea what they're doing up there, although I seem to remember the healthcare bill being crafted behind Democratically-closed doors and voted on by people who didn't even read it.

    But that isn't my point. What dismays me, and what you don't seem to want to acknowledge, is the antipathy with which each side views the other. The level of hatred and vitriol I've read from both sides on this website is disgusting and does nothing to further the interests of our country.

    Or are you going to continue insisting it's all their fault and accept none of the responsibility for this poisonous climate yourself? You keep telling me what I can't deny even when the evidence for doing so is obvious. Just look at your own comments.

      #1.51 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 2:51 PM EST

      The silver lining that may prove to be extremely useful in the next two years...

      Every time this woman spins her wacky eyes and opens her mouth, we see exactly what the "tea" party is all about. She will do much, MUCH more damage than good for her cause.

      It would be wise to watch and exploit all that she does and who she does it with.

      • 1 vote
      #1.52 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 5:44 PM EST

      Yes, Rorschack, gerrymandering...money, etc. and I do hope they get a recount because that is so very close. What size is this district and who owns the land, special interests, church? Is she really representing and actively serving the people there? I was reading how the Senate race is different, the race for Representatives of the House is more locally determined at the link below.

      "Another way to avoid gerrymandering is simply to stop redistricting altogether and use existing political boundaries such as state, county, or provincial lines. While this prevents future gerrymandering, any existing advantage may become deeply ingrained. The United States Senate, for instance, has more competitive elections than the House of Representatives due to the use of existing state borders rather than gerrymandered districts—Senators are elected by their entire state, while Representatives are elected in legislatively drawn districts."

      What, if anything can be done about this gerrymandering TRICK? Is there a point where it goes too far, GOES AGAINST THE LAW, and how can we put a stop to it? These folks do not represent all of the People fairly!

      I found some answers about gerrymandering here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

      "In a decision on June 28, 2006, the United States Supreme Court upheld most of a Texas congressional map engineered in 2003 by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.[50] The 7–2 decision allows state legislatures to redraw and gerrymander districts as often as they like (not just after the decennial census). Thus they may work to protect their political parties' standing and number of seats, so long as they do not harm racial and ethnic minority groups. A 5–4 majority declared one Congressional district unconstitutional in the case because of harm to an ethnic minority.

      Rather than allowing more political influence, some states' citizens are considering shifting redistricting authority from politicians and giving it to non-partisan commissions or Redistricting commissions. The states of Washington,[51] Arizona,[52] and California[53] have created standing committees for the redistricting following the 2010 census. Rhode Island[54] and New Jersey[55] have developed ad hoc committees, but developed the past two decennial reapportionments tied to new census data. Florida's amendments 5 and 6, meanwhile, established rules for the creation of districts but did not mandate an independent commission.[56]"

      Let's get this fixed and begin to make it happen for 2014! A handful of representatives in one party in one wing of government should not ever be able to hold the rest of the country or even a district hostage in any way for any reason.

      • 1 vote
      #1.53 - Thu Nov 8, 2012 1:06 AM EST

      Kinda glad she won lol.

      Gives an ENORMOUS amount of ammunition to any and all comedians. Entertaining.

      What a goofy kook she is. Obviously knows nothing of HONORABLE american politics just like the other locked stepped fools.

      • 1 vote
      #1.54 - Thu Nov 8, 2012 6:30 PM EST
      Reply

      how upsetting

      • 13 votes
      Reply#2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 8:45 AM EST

      Doesn't Minnesota have any automatic recount provision?

      The main thing is Obama has won quite significantly and the Tea Party overall has taken a beating while Congress has shifted more Democratic. The Senate will likely end up with 55 or 56 seats caucusing with Democrats. The House will pick up at least 8 Democratic seats, maybe a couple more.

      The message across the board has to be that the country has rejected the far right shift that the Republican party has made in the last several years. It is clear that the nation has rejected the 2010 election results. Even in very heavily weighted red districts, some of the more vocal baggers have been sent packing. But with as many very stacked red districts as a result of the last redistricting, a loss of a Republican House majority was near impossible.

      It will be interesting to see if the remaining far right baggers can be controlled. Many of these have the old "Black Knight" syndrome and will refuse to accept the slap down the Tea Party took. But I think that the traditional Republicans will be trying at least to get these folks in line.

      All things considered, this was a huge victory for Democrats. A huge victory for women and a big victory for gay rights. The country as a whole is changing and although strong pockets of resistance will still exist, they will be drowned out. In the coming years if these don't come around, they will be left behind. 50,000 new Hispanic voters become eligible every month and that trend isn't about to change for a long time. The elephant is becoming a dinosaur. T-Rex will become the new mascot of the Republicans. A nasty bite, but a dying breed.

      • 12 votes
      #2.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:45 AM EST

      1NewDay. And the republicans do not help themselves when there shills talk about a "Latino problem." The only problem lies in the republican party that nowadays consists mostly of angry old white men and some religious fundamentalists. Both those groups are nasty and the sooner they become extinct the better.

      • 6 votes
      #2.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:11 AM EST

      MN here - they will be going to a recount (last I heard) because the difference is less than 1%.

      • 6 votes
      #2.3 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:21 AM EST

      Gag a freakin' maggot!

      • 4 votes
      #2.4 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:35 AM EST

      The TeaReTards last stand !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • 3 votes
      #2.5 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 11:45 AM EST

      Observing2,

      Yeah, I was thinking that might be the case. Sure would be nice to see her be able to spend more time with all her foster kids and "husband"!

      • 1 vote
      #2.6 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 3:57 PM EST

      Ah, c'mon, 1NewDay! Have some compassion for those poor little kids!!! Haven't they been through enough already???

      ...and I'm sure her "husband" would rather not have to waste the money on cheap hotels for his male prostitutes...

      • 1 vote
      #2.7 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 5:48 PM EST

      How upsetting indeed...in case anyone has not seen this or needs a reminder...sample some creepy Michele Bachman God speak and wonder how it is that this person managed to win?
      Hope they get a recount. She has missed her profession, some kind of reverend in her district in her little church would be a more realistic career match than allowing a continuation of this biased zealot on the House Intelligence Committee. How embarrassing for the rest of the country.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcyqzWCTWEM&feature=relmfu

      • 1 vote
      #2.8 - Thu Nov 8, 2012 1:44 AM EST
      Reply

      Just unreal. Is this district a colony from Mars? Of course this means she will continue to be seated on the House Intelligence Committee. An oxymoron if there ever were one.

      • 31 votes
      Reply#3 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 8:45 AM EST

      Once again, MN owes the nation an appology! We have again sent you the dullest and dumbest from our 6th District.

      • 12 votes
      #3.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:54 AM EST

      I live in Europe (voted by absentee ballot) and have already heard my first "Minnesota voter" joke. She really is great for laughs. Besides, we shouldn't take this stuff so seriously. Maybe that's the message from Minnesota. Didn't they have the wrestler-governor a while back?

      • 4 votes
      #3.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:14 AM EST

      I can only assume that, when she's not embarrassing Minnesota on TV, she's doing great things for her district. Anyone from Minnesota's 6th care to confirm/refute that?

      I don't have much room to criticize MN voters from where I sit because my district got Duncan D. Hunter reelected, who -- apart from being HIGHLY partisan and making a stink over how efficiently our servicemen receive their medals (as opposed to, oh... I don't know... tackling a REAL issue) -- hasn't done anything of note since he was elected on his father's coattails four years ago. I suppose I should be thankful that at least he doesn't completely embarrass my state every time he opens his mouth...

      • 4 votes
      #3.3 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:29 AM EST

      The Koch Cult with the help of Ryan started the TeaReTarded Party, what is that telling you, Romney was setup by the TeaRats and the 1% Mega Rich trying to buy our Democracy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • 5 votes
      #3.4 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 11:57 AM EST

      How pucking stupid are the MN voters?

      • 3 votes
      #3.5 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 12:29 PM EST

      @Patriotic American U.S.A., I generally agree with your points of view, but your strong rhetoric and disparaging name-calling is not what this country needs right now.

      • 1 vote
      #3.6 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 12:43 PM EST

      Well, how's about this doozy, remember this one? In her own words...

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsoDGWjUWRg&feature=related

        #3.7 - Thu Nov 8, 2012 2:06 AM EST

        Nomoreteakooks,

        THAT was funny. thanks!

          #3.8 - Fri Nov 9, 2012 11:19 AM EST
          Reply

          The last totally bat@!$%# crazy wing nut standing.

          • 24 votes
          Reply#4 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 8:45 AM EST

          Well we got rid of West and Walsh maybe next time it will be Bachmann, one can only hope and contribute to her opponent.

          • 16 votes
          Reply#5 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 8:48 AM EST

          "Well we got rid of West and Walsh maybe next time it will be Bachmann,"

          As Meat Loaf says -- 2 out 3 ain't bad!! Remember -- for the second election in a row, the tea party clowns cost Republicans control of the Senate.

          • 11 votes
          #5.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:22 AM EST

          That's true. In the long run, Democrats were helped by Bachman, West, Walsh, and even Clint Eastwood. We no longer are liberal versus conservative, we are sane versus wacko thanks to the tea party.

          • 6 votes
          #5.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 11:27 AM EST
          Reply

          Crap. 4 more years of listing to this Idiot.

          • 12 votes
          Reply#6 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 8:48 AM EST

          2 years.... it's the House.....

          • 8 votes
          #6.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:04 AM EST

          Eoin, people in the House run for re-election every two years.

          • 5 votes
          #6.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:07 AM EST

          4 years? Do you mean Obama?

            #6.3 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:49 AM EST

            O yah, dam cold medicine, I arrived an hour before my normal start today. My bad. Still 2 years of her lie's. Shudder

            • 7 votes
            #6.4 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 11:17 AM EST
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            Bachmann will be vote out the next time if she continues to line her coffers and make idiotic statements! She makes the people who vote for her look as dumb as she looks!! She has accomplished nothing in office, has done nothing but make a lame reputation for herself and embarrass the Republican party. Teabaggers, you are losers with the likes of her and Walsh and others!! Enjoy your loss....again....ya just never catch on. It's the "message", stupid!!!

            • 15 votes
            Reply#7 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 8:49 AM EST

            Are you kidding? She was re-elected and everyone knew she was a nut case, it looks like she's status quo for that Congressional District.

            • 8 votes
            #7.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:17 AM EST
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            Shouldn't she be in Arizona with the rest of the nutcases?

            • 9 votes
            Reply#8 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 8:49 AM EST

            Arizona does not want her.... we just got Palin living here. I thought she was going to run for an office. She probably will in the future. "I can see Mexico from my back yard". She will probably confuse Cuba and Mexico sine they both speak spanish.

            • 2 votes
            #8.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 2:17 PM EST
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            She, McConnell, Cantor and Boehner need to go

            • 15 votes
            Reply#9 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 8:52 AM EST

            "She, McConnell, Cantor and Boehner need to go."

            Exactly, that's their problem. A laxative might help.

            • 9 votes
            #9.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 8:54 AM EST

            Boehner just said "We're going to make sure Obama is nothing more than a two term president!"

            • 11 votes
            #9.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:00 AM EST

            At least they seem to have an achievable goal in mind (lol, good humor H25)!!! May that be the last and only thing their stonewalling achieves. Wouldn't it be a great world if we could vote that idea out too??? We can at least see it in our daydreams.

            • 1 vote
            #9.3 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 12:56 PM EST

            A laxative might help

            Nicolaus20 - I would be seriously concerned about the environmental ramifications of flushing that much untreated crap out to sea all at once. Hasn't the East Coast been through enough for awhile??

            H25 - hysterical!! ...but you have to slightly cross your eyes, wobble and say it with a slobbery slur.

            • 1 vote
            #9.4 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 5:57 PM EST
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            Nik: LOL! Lobotomies might help..........

            • 7 votes
            Reply#10 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:03 AM EST

            That was already done.

            • 5 votes
            #10.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:28 AM EST

            Mymom: LOL!! That would explain it.............

            • 3 votes
            #10.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:43 AM EST
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            Could someone from that district please explain how you could elect her to another term...its not like voters didn't know how full of crap she really is....

            • 13 votes
            Reply#11 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:03 AM EST

            That's why they call them low IQ voters.

            • 5 votes
            #11.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:21 AM EST

            Yes, Is there anyone from from Bachmann's district that can explain why you think she is sane?

            • 6 votes
            #11.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:26 AM EST

            I never knew things were so bad in Minnesota.

            • 6 votes
            #11.3 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:26 AM EST

            I'm so embarrased! M in MN

            • 6 votes
            #11.4 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:56 AM EST

            She talks through people with a glazed stare and fixed smile...is she on xanax or something or just her exposure to that bubble world and what some would call brainwashed? She attended Oral Roberts U. to get her law degree, but it was taught according to their sect of Christian laws, not like a real university as explained about Dominionism...this is a bit alarming when looked into. Are many aware of this?
            How can they vote for someone this biased?

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBf9q8yV9g&feature=related

            • 1 vote
            #11.5 - Thu Nov 8, 2012 2:38 AM EST
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            Her being re-elected, only show us that the Tea-nuts are just as wacky as ever. This woman is a disgrace to womanhood and being a human being. Her brain is always out of gear when it comes to her mouth. They should be a shame for sending her back.

            • 11 votes
            Reply#12 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:03 AM EST

            she is truely an ugly, hateful person

            • 11 votes
            Reply#13 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:04 AM EST

            Hateful, how exactly?

              #13.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:17 AM EST

              "Hateful, how exactly?"

              She lies -- constantly -- about President Obama, about the press, about her fellow Republicans -- anytime it fits her insane agenda-- she lies. . She claims to be such a good Christian. Good Christians don't lie

              • 12 votes
              #13.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:26 AM EST

              alan-static,

              Have you even listened to her words? Her words to even the other republicans in the primary was disgusting and hateful. I've met her at the Minnesota State Fair when she ran down an older couple who must have expressed a negative view of her and you never herd such foul words and hate spill forth. The wicked witch of the west, north, east and south= Michelle Wacko!

              • 11 votes
              #13.3 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:31 AM EST

              Alan

              Isaiah 5:20

              II Tim 3:1-7

              In simple terms. If you don't like something. Call it hate. Promote it as hate. Call it hate. Promote it as hate. Call it hate. Promote it as hate. Call it hate. Promote it as hate. Call it hate. Promote it as hate. . . . . . .

              Eventually it is hate.

              • 1 vote
              #13.4 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:47 AM EST

              DB, Yes, isn't that what we all heard from the right when it came to Communist, Socialist and Marxist when the right referred here so often to Obama. Now eat cake and I hope you all choke for being so uneducated!

              FOOLS!

              • 6 votes
              #13.5 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 11:01 AM EST

              You do have to wonder about the voters in MN. Their the ones that elected Jessie "The Body" Ventura as Gov. It's the cold, does all sorts of strange things to their heads.

              • 2 votes
              #13.6 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 11:05 AM EST

              DB, really, that could go for anyone on any side in any group. BUT sometimes things are just plain hate and do need to be called hate. It doesn't make them become hate if they were truly hateful to start with.

              • 2 votes
              #13.7 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 11:35 AM EST

              DB, please, will you listen to the hate for once and not accept it as typical two-party discourse? Have you actually heard what Trump, Suunuu and all the stupid birthers have said? Trying to suppress votes in NOT acceptable. Dark and CPac money will NOT buy elections. How many times have to many to count Republicans said they want to take their country back? Just where do you think is been for the past 4 years? Kenya I suppose. If the GOP softens up a bit and COMPROMISE once in a while they will become the EOP (Extinct Old Party.) And by the way, compromise means meeting in the middle, NOT holding out until the other side capitulates and gives up.

              • 4 votes
              #13.8 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 1:14 PM EST

              I meant to say "If the GOP doesn't soften up a bit and compromise ... "

              • 1 vote
              #13.9 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 1:47 PM EST
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              It boggles my mind how the state can go for Obama, yet there's enough "fringe nut-case" votes to put a lunatic like her in office. Her district must be ridden with toothless rednecks.

              • 11 votes
              Reply#14 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:05 AM EST

              @Leave the gun;

              District 6 in MN is in the lower eastern part of Minnesota just north of Minneapolis. The population is 64% urban 36% rural, and 95.6% white. The population comes in at 759,478. Median income $56,862. Its the heart of the MN neo-cons its the same area that usually messes up MN politics. I personally live in district 7, so cant do much about that. But as far as toothless rednecks, You are a bit off, its the suburban yuppies.

              And btw... Keep your hands off my gun and my cannoli!

              • 8 votes
              #14.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:42 AM EST

              The 6th district in MN is called the MOST conservative district in the US for a reason. The fact that Michele won by such a small margin is quite a spanking. I hope she gets the message. I wonder what the odds in Vegas are on that happening????

              • 3 votes
              #14.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 1:19 PM EST

              JP...Thanks for the demographics data for that district. As for them being classified as "yuppies", the average yuppie is making a boat load more than a median $56k per year and anybody with an IQ equivalent to that of a gnat is smart enough to realize that c*nt is crazy. So sorry, maybe they're not toothless, but they are at the same level of the common redneck from my perspective.

              And for the record, I don't want your gun (I already have 14 of my own) and I certainly would not want your cannoli unless I wanted to downsize.

              Lastly, if you were as smart as you are trying to make yourself out to be, you would know that my screen name is a movie quote from The Godfather.

              • 1 vote
              #14.3 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 7:40 PM EST
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              We all see how Congress continues to be a huge embarrassment and a disappointment, however we fail to recognize that it's because of us that it is that way. Michelle Bachman being re-elected after the demonstration of total lunacy she's put on, is an excellent example of the voters getting exactly what they asked for, another 4 years of a Congress being a joke.

              • 6 votes
              Reply#15 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:14 AM EST

              I walked the halls of Congress a few years ago and went by her office. I was thinking, if there was a way to blast her out of there, it would do the country some good. It was tempting. But, that's not how a democracy works. However, the district she represents likes her for reasons known only to God. Guess they understand bat$%^& crazy and continue to endorse it.

              • 6 votes
              Reply#16 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:18 AM EST

              Obama received 50% of the vote, Romney 48%, who received the remaining 2%?

                Reply#17 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:21 AM EST

                The Independents, the Libertarians...and oh yeah, Ralph Nader.

                • 2 votes
                #17.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:28 AM EST

                Guessing most of it went to Johnson but haven't seen the numbers.

                • 2 votes
                #17.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:34 AM EST

                I don't think Ralph Nader ran this time, but thanks. That's better then any other info I'm getting. No one on the web seems to know this.

                • 1 vote
                #17.3 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:34 AM EST

                No he didn't run, I was kidding, but someone probably wrote him in! I don't even remember who the libertarian, green party, independent or other candidates were. I just know they were on the ballot and somebody must have voted for them.

                • 1 vote
                #17.4 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:40 AM EST

                Jill Stein was the Green party candidate.

                Gary Johnson was the libertarian candidate.

                Rocky Anderson was a candidate

                And believe it or not, Rosanne Barr was a candidate in some states.

                • 2 votes
                #17.5 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:50 AM EST

                Only 98% of the votes have been counted so still 2% out...most likely provisional votes mostly in Florida.

                • 1 vote
                #17.6 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 11:08 AM EST
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                What the Hell is wrong with these people? Have they ever heard this moron speak?

                • 7 votes
                Reply#18 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:21 AM EST

                As fellow morons, they thought she made sense, so they voted her in.

                • 7 votes
                #18.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:29 AM EST
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                She will provide an endless source of amusement, with her every utterance. She is destined to be the one, true and rightful Village Idiot of Congress. Let her begin braying her inanities now, so that we may all have a good laugh. The people who voted for her are undoubtedly Summa Cum Laude graduates of The Laughing Academy, and they may now devote their attention once again to the things that matter most to them, such as digging up potatoes with their few remaining teeth, and pounding Buds down by the case.

                • 7 votes
                Reply#19 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:23 AM EST

                Holy Crap,

                I can not believe that she was re-elected. She has shown herself to be a fruitcake extraordinaire. My condolences to the people who voted against her, contempt for those that voted for her.

                • 9 votes
                Reply#20 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:23 AM EST

                How can this clueless twit get elected, as she and Marcus became Swiss citizens earlier this year? Isn't there a requirement that she be a US Citizen to serve in the US House?

                • 6 votes
                Reply#21 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:23 AM EST

                Yeah - she changed her mind and "gave it back". Sadly, so many of these observations are right on. I'm from MN and don't get it either. Thank God I'm not in her district.

                • 7 votes
                #21.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:26 AM EST

                I live in the 2nd district and am saddled with John Kline. I don't get that one either. Evidently he keeps getting voted in because Reagan trusted him with the "football." How's that for a major contribution?

                • 2 votes
                #21.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 1:26 PM EST
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                Given what the Tea Party cost the GOP, Michele Bachmann may find herself marginalized. Losing a safe race (Missouri) and the Indiana seat to Democratic challengers may give people less patience with the crazies. The Tea Party may rattle their fetishes but it won't do them as much good as it had over the past four years.

                • 9 votes
                Reply#22 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:24 AM EST

                Karen -- I tend to agree. The days of the tea party are limited. This is the second election in a row the tea nuts have cost Republicans the Senate. Thw adults will take charge of the room before too long.

                • 11 votes
                #22.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:29 AM EST
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                I hope she does a good job cleaning up her state and gets it in order.

                  Reply#23 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:24 AM EST

                  Ironically if she does that she will not be re-elected in two years.

                  • 4 votes
                  #23.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:31 AM EST

                  Hey New - what needs cleaning and what needs to get in order?

                    #23.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 10:27 AM EST
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                    That's too bad. I was hoping the people of Minnesota would show a little more intelligence and start cleaning out the rift raft. There's plenty of good republicans in Minnesota, why would you settle for someone who will do absolutely nothing good for your state? Not like the state of Missouri, who gave Akin his walking papers back to the looney bin.

                    • 12 votes
                    Reply#24 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:25 AM EST

                    She is a NUT! She has done nothing to help over 200 unemployed people from the Sartell paper-mill after the explosion and total shut down to find jobs. What a waste of air she is in MN and the thing is she will not change ... Tea Party my ass

                    • 12 votes
                    #24.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:40 AM EST

                    When are they going to start vetting candidates?

                    • 1 vote
                    #24.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 1:47 PM EST
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                    I really do NOT get this. It's not just her politics, but she is so stupid she makes Sarah Palin look like a brainiac. What the heck is wrong with the people in Minnesota?

                    • 15 votes
                    Reply#25 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:25 AM EST

                    Crystal meth.

                    • 4 votes
                    #25.1 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:26 AM EST

                    You can't fix stupid and some people prove it. Look on the bright side -- West and Walsh are gone.

                    • 8 votes
                    #25.2 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:31 AM EST

                    Same thing that is wrong in Ca. when they keep electing Nancy Pelosi.

                    • 4 votes
                    #25.3 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 9:43 AM EST

                    So is that one-and-done Chip Cravack. Now he can join his family in New Hampshire. Family unity and all...

                    • 1 vote
                    #25.4 - Wed Nov 7, 2012 1:30 PM EST

                    There is no comparison between Bachman and Pelosi. None. One is brilliant, well educated and seasoned with years of hard work and experience in civil society. The other is from inside a bubble and all that is defined and motivated in her head comes from within the walls of that Dominionist cult.

                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBf9q8yV9g&feature=related

                    • 1 vote
                    #25.5 - Thu Nov 8, 2012 3:02 AM EST

                    Anonymous if that 3rd sentence is supposed to refer to Nancy Pelosi, I think I'm going to vomit. Brilliant? Good Lord.

                      #25.6 - Fri Nov 9, 2012 12:03 AM EST
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