And there are polls to indicate that this may be the case. Jim Graves, Michele Bachmann’s DFL opponent in the Sixth District Race in Minnesota, is creeeping closer and closer to Bachmann’s numbers, and it is possible that this race could even up over the next few weeks.

From the Minnesota Progressive Project:

A new poll conducted by Greenberg Quinlan indicates that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is more vulnerable to her Democratic challenger than previously believed.
The polling firm surveyed about registered likely voters in the Sixth Congressional district of Minnesota from August 29 to August 30. The results indicate only forty per cent of the voters in Bachmann’s politically conservative district rate her performance “Excellent/Good.” Thirty-five per cent of those polled rate Bachmann’s performance “Poor.”

Asked who they would vote for if the election were held today, forty-eight per cent of those polled indicated that they would vote for incumbent Bachmann and forty-six per cent indicates they would vote for her opponent Jim Graves, a newcomer to politics.

Minnesota Political expert Bill Pendergast gives his analysis of this here. That site is getting a lot of sudden attention so it may take a moment to load, give it time.

Of critical importance is the fact that Graves has a strong advantage for future movement of the polls. From MinnPost:

The poll also show that Graves’ name ID in the district has jumped 20 points, though he’s still largely unknown at 38 percent. Meanwhile, Bachmann is known by 99 percent of voters. That will make it harder for Bachmann to change peoples’ perceptions about her, while Graves should be able to influence people who do not yet have an opinion of him.

This is not the only race in Minnesota that has a chance of replacing a Republican with a Democrat. Stay tuned.

This is a surprise and a disappointment. Michele told us that both God and her husband thought she should run for president. The de facto founder of the Tea Party hast quit after the first real contest, which in turn followed a hollow victory at the Sraw Poll. The Tea-Tossing Patriots of the American Nation had a surprise victory at Lexington and Concord followed by a trouncing at their first real contest, at Bunker Hill, but they did not quit. No. They continued the fight, dragging cannons over the snowy Berkshires and training the weapons on the British Fort in Boston, driving them out. Then they went on to win the American Revolution and found the greatest nation ever.

But Michele Bachmann has encountered one significant loss and is quitting the race. This is very, very disappointing for many reasons.

Including, and especially, the fact that this probably means she will run for re-election to congress in Minnesota’s 6th district. Which I can see from my living room. Damn.

OK, that’s all funny and everything, but I’m very disappointed in both the producers of this piece and in some of the attitudes associated with it.

First, where the hell is Michele Bachmann? Michele produces a “Greatest Moment” every time she opens her mouth! Has Bachmann’s ever flowing river of crazy become the new normal, so that it isn’t even noticed by political satirists anymore? That, my friends, is exactly what I warned about when she first started running. Well, I said that mainly in my own head, but I’m sure you figured it out too. Bedtime for Bonzo isn’t just a think you say when it is bed time. Its a movie starring the man considered by the majority of Americans to be the greatest president who ever existed in the United States of America.

The second thing that is somewhat disappointing is, of course, the polarization. The woman commenting on Gingrich’s child labor remark expressed my feelings exactly. Gingrich’s suggestion to enslave the poor children of the inner cities to clean toilets is a bad idea, but one that can be transformed into a good one. A youth jobs program is a great idea. They used to be more common, and have often been part economic stimulus. But not like Gingrich says. More like the lady in the video says.

And finally, since Michele Bachmann was left out of this video, here’s a makeup video, with Sarah Palin:

I love the Boston Accent on Paul.

This is old but someone just pointed me to it and I thought you would enjoy it.

Or hate it, or whatever:

However, the New Hampshire Union Leader has elected to endorse another candidate.

“There’s a lot of different endorsements that come from a lot of papers, and the main endorsement that I’m looking forward to is the one here in Iowa on January 3rd in the caucuses,” Bachmann said.

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The other candidate deemed more worthy by the Union Leader was New Gingrich, of whom the esteemed newspaper said “Newt Gingrich is by no means the perfect candidate.”

Gingerich has angered Tea Party members by suggesting that illegals from Mexico be given something more or less like amnesty, rather than being jailed or deported. Michele Bachmann would never do that! Which makes her kind of a dick, but still, we need her to be the Republican Nominee. Lets just hope she does well in Iowa.

The Madness of Michele Bachmann: A Broad-Minded Survey of a Small-Minded Candidate is a “… fact-packed exposé [with] all the dirty little secrets that Michele Bachmann would rather you didn’t know…”

Folks in Minnesota have been watching Michele Bachmann for a lot longer than the national press corps, and as far as I can tell, the national press has utterly ignored some of the more interesting episodes in her public life. I suppose they were waiting until later on in the election cycle to bring up some of these interesting moments.

But you don’t have to wait. I have not read this book, but I’ve been reading the authors’s work for years, and I’m quite sure it will have everything about Bachmann’s Krazy with the possible exception of the story of how I started her out in her political career (I believe the author is unaware of that little episode, and frankly, I don’t like to talk about it much).

Since Michele Bachmann became a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, journalists have been plumbing the depths of the well-regarded blog Dump Bachmann for material on her. Now the bloggers themselves pour forth a decade’s worth of research and analysis to show that, no matter what you’ve heard about Bachmann, there’s worse. Much worse. After dogging her heels for the past decade, they reveal the blood-curdling truth about the woman who may well become the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nominee.

One might question its appropriateness as a song or the use of the word “bitch” but aside from that, the shoe fit. There was no reason for NBC or Jimmy Fallon to apologize. Michele Bachmann is the one that needs to apologize.

Here’s the event in question:

Michele, here is a short list of your gaffs, mainly covering only recent ones:

• Academic “freedom” legislation
• Acorn comments
• Advised citizens to violate law and ignore census
• Bachmann’s own bridge to nowhere
• Bathroomgate
• Check with husband before making any decisions as president
• Concord v. Concord
• Eliminate all taxes
• Elvis Presley’s Name
• Elwin Tinklenberg’s Spit Take (Immigration)
• Ending program to make the U.S. more like China
• End teen bullying by abolishing the Department of Education
• Equated her campaign with the ill fated “Charge of the Light Brigade”
• FDR caused a recession
• French Kissed George Bush
• George Bush didn’t really up the debt much
• God told her to run for office
• Hezbollah’s missile sites in Cuba
• Hiding in the bushes gate
• Hurricanes = god’s wrath for governmental spending
• Insists Mitt Romney is not a Christian
• Investigate Democrats as Anti American
• John Wayne v. John Wayne Gacy
• No college aid for combat vets
• No Pork Pledge except for Farm Subsidies For Herself
• Pals around with Bradlee Dean
• Paul Revere talked trash to the British (and was not himself British) Oh, no, wait, that was Palin, never mind.
• Pray away the gay
• Promised 1 dollar a gallon gasoline
• Re-educatoin camps
• Refused to help with I35 bridge collapse emergency
• The Candidates Marriage Vow and Pro Slavery Stance vs. Whoopi Goldberg and The View
• Thought she was already president for a while (waterboardinggate)
• Town Hall Meeting Gate
• Used Census data despite her opposition to the census
• Vaccines cause mental retardation
• Waterboarding = Nuclear war in Japan = Good

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of their’s be our’s? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. …And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. ….The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, and all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

That was god. Makes sense. If the other guys don’t give you what you want, you invade them and make them pay with their lives, their stuff, their cattle, their women. So what the hell are we doing in Iraq?

That was Michele Bachmann. I so hope she becomes president. I’d love to have a couple of Iraqi slaves around the house, and they have some good stuff there too, old artifacts and such.

And if every American who was related to a soldier who died in Iraq got several million dollars, that could help our economy.

About 30 Occupy Wall Street protesters have interrupted a foreign policy speech by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann in South Carolina.

Bachmann was delivering the speech Thursday on the deck of the mothballed aircraft carrier USS Yorktown near Charleston when the protesters stood up and began shouting, “Mike check!”

They told her she was more concerned with dividing Americans than helping them. They chanted for about three minutes while the Minnesota congresswoman left the stage.

Bwhahahahahahah!!!!