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June 22, 2011 07:21 PM UTC

Michele Bachmann--For Real? No? What Gives?

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  • by: Colorado Pols

It could be a statement on the quality (or lack thereof) of the 2012 GOP field that, as the Iowa Independent reports, Rep. Michele Bachmann is now beating out frontrunners like Mitt Romney in opinion polls–even as those same primary voters don’t expect her to win.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann led the pack for the first time in a Zogby poll of Republican primary voters released on Tuesday. Her presidential campaign appeared to get a jolt from last Monday’s successful GOP debate, and the new poll reflects a surge for the congresswoman whose official campaign is a week old.

In the poll, the Minnesota Republican got 24 percent of the vote, ahead of Herman Cain and Mitt Romney, who each got 15 percent, the Washington Times reports.

Though Bachmann is well liked among Republican primary voters, they don’t expect her to get the nomination. [Pols emphasis] Only 7 percent predicted she would win, while Romney – who has led most polls – is predicted by 37 percent of GOP voters to win the nomination.

In Colorado, Bachmann enjoys similar enthusiasm. A poll follows: why is there so much “support” for Bachmann if so few in her base think she can actually win? Unseriousness? Waiting for the real candidate? The best analogy on the Democratic side we can think of would be Dennis Kucinich leading a primary poll–we’re pretty sure that’s never happened.

Michele Bachmann leads a poll that also indicates she is not expected to win. Why?

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21 thoughts on “Michele Bachmann–For Real? No? What Gives?”

  1. Michele Bachmann’s Holy War

    Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions. She believes that the Chinese are plotting to replace the dollar bill, that light bulbs are killing our dogs and cats, and that God personally chose her to become both an IRS attorney who would spend years hounding taxpayers and a raging anti-tax Tea Party crusader against big government. She kicked off her unofficial presidential campaign in New Hampshire, by mistakenly declaring it the birthplace of the American Revolution. “It’s your state that fired the shot that was heard around the world!” she gushed. “You are the state of Lexington and Concord, you started the battle for liberty right here in your backyard.”

    http://www.rollingstone.com/po…

    That’s great, Repubs! Keep her out there as the face of your party – that’s certainly going to drive Independents and Moderates to vote for you in 2012!

    1. I would vote for a brick of Velveeta before I’d cast another vote for Obama.  I’m not alone.

      http://www.bloomberg.com/news/…

      By a 44 percent to 34 percent margin, Americans say they believe they are worse off than when President Barack Obama took office in early 2009, when the U.S. was in the depths of a recession compounded by the September 2008 financial crisis and the economy was losing as many as 820,000 jobs a month.

      The gloom covers the immediate future, with fewer than 1 in 10 people expecting unemployment to return to pre-recession levels within the next two years, and it extends to the next generation. More than half of respondents say their children are destined to have a lower standard of living than they do, upending a traditional touchstone of the American Dream.

      1. Yeah, I see the poll.  But you didn’t include the Velveeta Cheese question.

        Obama doesn’t have to run against a generic candidate nor a block of cheese.  He gets to run against a real person, and the current field is a bit lacking.

        Time will tell. Meanwhile a Velveeta write in campaign is probably a good use of your time.  

      1. still, with Bachmann in:

        1. Palin’s a complete non-starter.

        2. Pawlenty might as well throw in the towel or run for someon’s Veep.  He’s the most credible R candidate that will suffer damage from a Bachmann run, losing votes and momentum in both Iowa and Minnesota.

  2. only because of the time constraints. When she is allowed to talk unimpeded is when she exhibits the lunacy.

    But, she’ll win Iowa

  3. So how did that embrace of the radical right work out for Republicans last time?

    They lost Delaware, Nevada, Colorado and the senate by embracing the radical right so of course keep digging.

  4. I can’t hear you!

    Its called cognitive dissonance, the ability to hold two contradictory positions at once.  It is now a requirement for Teapublicans.

    “Get your government hands off my Medicare!”

    1. There is a good chance that her perceived chance of winning will go up as she (wait for it) becomes more likely to win.

      At any rate, Bachmann is no Dennis Kucinich. You insult beautiful women AND garden gnomes.

      🙂

  6. In a poll of likely primary voters, Bachmann can do quite well.  But those same people I think are skeptical of their own reception within the party – I think they see “the establishment”, or perhaps the larger core of GOP voters, as unwilling to endorse their current favorite candidate.

  7. You can like someone, but not vote for them. (like when you’re really attracted to the torutred one armed drummer in the shitty acid rock band type but marry the accountant type instead) They may actually be thinking of what just happened in 2010 where they let loose the crazies on Washington and now they are having their “Ruh-Roh, Raggy” moment because the moderates who stayed home last year aren’t likely to let that happen again.

    They went too far in their idealogical choices and they know that the independents and moderates aren’t going to let a mutant wing-bat slip through the cracks.

    So, they may like her and she may appeal to their sensibilities, but they won’t vote for her because she won’t stand a chance against Obama.

    Of course, the GOP is fucking crazy lately and I could be giving them too much credit for assuming they are thinking pragmatically. I’m generous like that.  

    1. The GOP knows it is going to lose so they nominate a women or minority to say, “look we aren’t racist or sexist.”

      Honestly I believe the D’s did it in 1984 with Ferraro.

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