I’m still hoping Michele Bachmann is the Republican nominee for Senator in Minnesota, but if she’s having this much trouble with her House seat (h/t Trollhattan)….
With Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann facing a widening campaign finance probe, her Democratic challenger is out with a new poll showing him in a close race with the conservative firebrand.
The survey, conducted by Public Policy Polling and obtained by POLITICO, shows Democrat Jim Graves leading Bachmann, a four-term congresswoman and former GOP presidential candidate, 47 percent to 45 percent. The results are within the poll’s 4.4 percentage point margin of error.
MikeJ
Girls. Plural.
ETA: then of course the verb needs to agree. Make.
raven
OK City is in the crosshairs.
eta Wow, they are showing it “rope out”.
Hunter Gathers
The Girl With The Faraway Eyes doesn’t have anything to worry about. All she’ll have to do is spend a few months singing ‘They’re coming to take your health care away, ha ha’ and the stupid crackers who populate her district will flock to her like stink on shit. Don’t underestimate the petty ignorance of rural Midwest voters.
DFH no.6
Yes, girls. Pretty Girls Make Graves.
Very good punk (or post-punk or whatever) rock band from the aughts out of Seattle (named after a Smith’s song) who packed it in back in ’07.
Caught them at Coachella, then during their last tour (at the now-defunct Clubhouse in Tempe, AZ).
Bachmann, though, we’ll have with us always (not such a bad thing, really — she brings the crazy like few others).
MikeJ
@raven: Multiple. All over the place.
Using Pat Robertson logic, God doesn’t like people who elect Inhofe. But you’d have to be a dimwit to think of this as punishment even for something that foul.
Keep you heads down, Oklahomites.
Yatsuno
@MikeJ: Oh I’m sure Oklahoma did something to piss off Big Sky Daddy. My guess is insufficient slut shaming or slacking on their queer murder quota. Uncle Pat will think of something to excuse the good white God-fearin’ folk.
Yatsuno
@MikeJ: Oh I’m sure Oklahoma did something to piss off Big Sky Daddy. My guess is insufficient slut shaming or slacking on their queer murder quota. Uncle Pat will think of something to excuse the good white God-fearin’ folk.
BGinCHI
That band name is second only to Dogs Die in Hot Cars.
Actually, third to my band, Grassy Knoll Cowards.
djork
Whenever I see a picture of Bachmann, I instantly think:
“She’s got fookin’ crazy eyes”
…..to the tune of Betty Davis eyes.
SatanicPanic
Unless it’s a really close election, I’m actually just fine with this woman keeping her seat. For the sake of good snarking opportunities, we can afford to drop a seat in the House.
Yatsuno
Oh and FYWP. No really.
JPL
@Yatsuno: It was god’s will.
gbear
@Hunter Gathers:
Her district really isn’t that rural. It’s the far reaches of the Twin Cities’ suburbs and largly made up of white flight rednecks. These are the folks who like Bachmann.
If you look at the truely rural districts in MN, they’re all represented by Democrats. I wouldn’t refer to them as petty or ignorant at all. It’s the huge suburban donut around the Twin Cities that elects Republicans.
hoppipolla
@BGinCHI: actually, i ripped the best band name that (n)ever was from a headline i saw the other day on bbc.com: Mexico Death Saint. un-freaking-beatable.
raven
Proly a good time to lay off the bullshit snarky remarks.
? Martin
Since the GOP always primaries from the right, I can’t wait to see who they dig up to try and save the seat.
James Gary
I have to say, this particular event might not have been deemed post-worthy had it not been for the title possibility.
(And as far as band names: we must not forget “Get Him Eat Him,” “Seven Year Bitch,” and the vinyl-era “LMNOP,” whose first album was appropriately titled “LMNOP LP.”
the Conster
“conservative firebrand”. LOL. More like “crazy ass nutjob” but I guess that’s a bit loaded.
VOR
I seriously doubt Bachmann would do well in a state-wide contest like Senator, regardless of the competition from Franken. Bachmann is in a very favorable district which is not representative of the entire state.
BGinCHI
@James Gary: LMNOP was the fake name of Donald Glover when he was on Sesame Street last week.
/yes, I have a toddler
imonlylurking
She thinks she has far more appeal than she really does. I watch a lot of youtube videos, and they show commercials on youtube now. I saw one for Bachmann last night that started with, “Good news! The house of Representatives has decided to vote on my bill to repeal Obamacare!” I skipped the rest, but for the rest of the night I couldn’t help but think of it. She really does live in a bubble.
Run for Senate, Michele. Please, PLEASE run for Senate.
hoppipolla
i plead guilty to being Debbie Downer, but it’s way too early to start counting chickens a la Bachmann. margin of error means the (insignificant) lead could be illusory, and besides, Busch appeared to have a comfortable lead on Sanford a week before she got hammered at the polls.
i also feel a little dirty for clicking on a politico link.
James Gary
@BGinCHI: Interesting. (I had to Google “Donald Glover”…and even having IDed him, I confess I’ve never seen anything he’s done.)
/yes, I am old and unconnected.
elisabeth
@VOR:
Hell, that district doesn’t even represent her as she doesn’t live in it.
BGinCHI
@James Gary: I had to look him up too. He was really funny and it was a great episode. Andy Samberg did a really funny one the other day too, as did Jason Schwartzman.
Redshift
@BGinCHI: He’s on Community, which is my favorite TV comedy, and he’s great in it. I also love that his rapper name, Childish Gambino, comes from an online “What is your Wu-Tang Clan name?” generator.
BGinCHI
@Redshift: I got Zexy Professional.
Think I’m gonna legally change my name to that.
Gus
Bachmann would get trounced in a statewide election, and I’m sure she knows it. She’ll stick with the safe district full of crazy that sends her back every two years. I’d be Norm Coleman wants revenge, or maybe T-Paw will have made enough money by then to retire comfortably, even if he loses.
Spaghetti Lee
Reading tea leaves on a house race a year and a half away? Well, whatever. Graves ran against her last year and lost by a very small margin, like under 1,000 votes I think, so it’s obviously doable.
SFAW
@Spaghetti Lee:
Right. Just as it was in 2012.
Unless she strokes out, or gets caught with her figurative hand in the till, she’ll win. And even getting caught for something probably wouldn’t kill her chances.
West of the Rockies
I’d love to see Bachmann go — I’d dance an ugly jig in the street to see it. But I can’t too excited about a 2013 poll. If there is, indeed, a Flying Spaghetti Monster though, Bachmann will lose.
mclaren
No charges will be filed. IOKIYAR.
Nothing to see here, folks, move along.
fuckwit
Did…. did you just quote a DADA song???!
Am I not the only person on earth who has heard of that LA band of the 90s, and loved every song on their first album?
(not so much their second album, from whence this song comes).
Wow. Just wow.
Tractarian
Doug, admit it. You only posted this because you thought of the kick-ass subject line.
Tractarian
Um, people. This is a Smiths song. Look it up.