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Norbert

(6,039 posts)
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:53 PM Sep 2012

Michele Bachmann's Poll Lead in Minnesota is Narrowing

Source: US News and World Report

Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann may not run away with her congressional election after all.

A new internal poll released by Democratic challenger Jim Graves reveals Bachmann's barely holding on in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District. According to the Greenberg Quinlan Rosner poll, Bachmann leads her opponent 48 to 46 percent, within the margin of error, a lead that has narrowed when compared to three months ago.


Read more: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/ballot-2012/2012/09/10/michele-bachmanns-poll-lead-in-minnesota-is-narrowing

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Michele Bachmann's Poll Lead in Minnesota is Narrowing (Original Post) Norbert Sep 2012 OP
let it be oldhippydude Sep 2012 #1
You say that, but you know you'll miss her pscot Sep 2012 #11
at least she wont be on the intelligence committee..n/t oldhippydude Sep 2012 #12
We'll still have Steve King Mz Pip Sep 2012 #13
There were polls that showed it close before... iandhr Sep 2012 #2
She is such a liar. How could people vote for her? Kteachums Sep 2012 #3
Oh, please, Minnesota - Do this for us janet118 Sep 2012 #4
well here's hoping but her district is located azurnoir Sep 2012 #5
Why do people vote for her?!? and-justice-for-all Sep 2012 #6
It's her gerrymandered district Lydia Leftcoast Sep 2012 #8
Sounds like the ideal... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2012 #9
Boggles the mind how she ever got elected for any damn thing. OverBurn Sep 2012 #15
The Comedians Will Probably Cry Liberalynn Sep 2012 #7
Oh dear....Marcus must be so flustered and bewildered. zellie Sep 2012 #10
Two words, my good friends. Garrison Keillor. truthisfreedom Sep 2012 #14
Would LOVE to see her lose mvd Sep 2012 #16

Mz Pip

(27,439 posts)
13. We'll still have Steve King
Tue Sep 11, 2012, 12:03 AM
Sep 2012

and Louis Gohmert, and Newt will regurgitate himself with he's trying to sell a book.

Sadly the vacuum will be filled by another crazy.

iandhr

(6,852 posts)
2. There were polls that showed it close before...
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 06:04 PM
Sep 2012

... and she won comfortably each time.

Though I would love to see her out of the house I wont get my hopes up.

Kteachums

(331 posts)
3. She is such a liar. How could people vote for her?
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 06:14 PM
Sep 2012

Anybody that spreads gossip and rumors like she did deserves to loose office. She is supposed to set an example not put people down. She is an arrogant b----!

janet118

(1,663 posts)
4. Oh, please, Minnesota - Do this for us
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 06:27 PM
Sep 2012

Make her disappear from our consciousness. Let her find a job where she will be held accountable for being a complete airhead. Send her friends in the tea party a message that hitching a ride in the clown car leads off a cliff.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
5. well here's hoping but her district is located
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 06:31 PM
Sep 2012

in an affluent white flight area of the Twin Cities and one of the main highschools in that district is infamous for racial strife and sadly has one of highest rates for suicide among Gay teens in the country both of which should say something about her constituents

and-justice-for-all

(14,765 posts)
6. Why do people vote for her?!?
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 07:20 PM
Sep 2012

she is mentally unstable, talks nonsense all the time and is a fucking horrible person.

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
8. It's her gerrymandered district
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 10:52 PM
Sep 2012

her district is located in white flight but mostly non-affluent suburbs (a few affluent ones--but when I was growing up, places like Brooklyn Park and Circle Pines were called "the beer suburbs.&quot with lots of fundamentalist churches, and areas north of there made up of conservative rural Catholic towns. She's anti-choice, so a lot of the conservative Catholics and fundies will vote for her simply for that reason. The inner suburbs are gaining more residents of color (especially Liberian refugees), and this infuriates the white flight types. Bachmann also has a huge following among mean-and-dumb males, who think she's "hot" and good at getting liberals mad. They're dumb enough that they don't realize that she's talking nonsense, and what minds they have are poisoned by talk radio.

truthisfreedom

(23,146 posts)
14. Two words, my good friends. Garrison Keillor.
Tue Sep 11, 2012, 12:09 AM
Sep 2012

Michele, pack up your highly closeted and sexless husband, your bizarre religulous nutbaggery, your terrible makeup, and your complete misunderstanding of reality, and welcome a real businessman, a real Minnesotan, and a real family to take your place here in one of the most amazing states in this country. Michele, you've been the inside joke our state never deserved. We are cool. You are a lunatic. Goodbye!

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