{"id":5904,"date":"2012-01-25T09:03:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T15:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2012-01-25T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T15:03:55","slug":"michele-bachmann-will-run-for-re-election-to-congressional-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/michele-bachmann-will-run-for-re-election-to-congressional-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Michele Bachmann Will Run For Re-Election to Congressional Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2078\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/2012\/01\/25\/michele-bachmann-will-run-for-re-election-to-congressional-seat\/479px-bachmann2011\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2078\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/files\/2012\/01\/479px-Bachmann2011-239x300.jpg?resize=239%2C300\" alt=\"\" title=\"479px-Bachmann2011\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2078\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michele Bachmann will run for re-election to Congress.  Photo from Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p \"class=lead\">Michele Bachmann, who recently dropped out of the Presidential race, will run for re-election to her seat in Minnesota&#8217;s Sixth Congressional District.  <\/p>\n<p>The district is likely to attain a different shape after expected redistricting prior to the election, which may affect the outcome of this and other nearby elections.  The word on the street is that a very likely outcome would chop off the more liberal Stillwater section of the district, making the Sixth an easier win for Bachmann than it already is. The downside for Michele is that she lives in that part of the district, so she would have to either move (over to near my place!) to run in the Sixth, or stay in her new district and run against a popular Democrat, in the more urban and liberal Fourth District. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bachmann declared her plans in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday. The Republican congresswoman had been mum on her plans since folding her presidential campaign after a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses earlier this month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2012\/01\/25\/bachmann-says-shell-seek-4th-term-in-congress\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michele Bachmann, who recently dropped out of the Presidential race, will run for re-election to her seat in Minnesota&#8217;s Sixth Congressional District. The district is likely to attain a different shape after expected redistricting prior to the election, which may affect the outcome of this and other nearby elections. The word on the street is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/michele-bachmann-will-run-for-re-election-to-congressional-seat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michele Bachmann Will Run For Re-Election to Congressional Seat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[341],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1xe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}