7% unemployment. Keeping fucking that chicken, libs
Trend matters more than a hard number. Or was the economy doing fine at 7% under Bush?
Bachman's seat is pretty safe right? Such a shame
Reddest seat in Minnesota. A while back her challenger (Jim Graves) had a poll showing him trailing by only 5 (48-43), so I'm wondering if this Muslim Brotherhood business is pulling her down any. In 2008 when she accused Obama of being a communist she came very close to losing - she pulled it out by 2 points because it was so near the election date that her opponent, who raised millions off of her comments, couldn't do anything with the money.
I'm not very optimistic but she's never gotten more than 53% of the vote. Her special brand of crazy is the only thing keeping the district competitive.
Personally if I were Graves I'd be running a new hit ad every week. Some highlights:
- calling fellow Congressmen communists or members of the Muslim brotherhood or both
- her "Bachmann's List" bullshit (while in the MN House she harassed teachers who talked about the Iraq war in high schools and sent out some thugs to monitor their classes)
- her applying for dual citizenship in Switzerland only a few months after the presidential primary, which would have made her ineligible
- telling BP not to pay for the oil spill and that they shouldn't be "chumps"
- refusing to debate her opponents
- district having the highest rate of teen suicide in Minnesota and how she's done nothing about it
- how she's done nothing about anything and has bold-face lied to reporters about her tenure in the House (saying in 2010 "I'm a freshman in the House so I don't have much influence")
- collecting stimulus dollars after railing against the stimulus
There's
plenty. Unfortunately, Democrats never want to get their hands dirty so they'll never attack her on any of that, but Graves is kind of doing his own thing so here's hoping.
Here's him on the Muslim Brotherhood stuff.