Bachmann: $16 million and counting

[gateley]

Michele Bachmann has raised and spent more money this election cycle than any member of the House aside from Speaker John Boehner – close to $16 million through the end of July alone.

But the Minnesota GOP congresswoman and former presidential candidate is still going pedal-to-the-metal with her fundraising efforts as she attempts to fend off a determined Democratic effort to oust her.

“I've never needed your support as much as I do today,” she writes in her most recent fundraising email appeal. “In 10 days, we must close our financial books and report our fundraising numbers and, unfortunately, we are still short of our fundraising goals by more than $376,000. This is a deficit that we MUST overcome--in the face of senseless attacks from a ruthless opponent, we can't afford to leave any stone unturned.”

While the race is close and the DCCC has flagged Minnesota’s 6th District as an “emerging race,” Bachmann still appears to have a clear advantage in what is the most Republican seat in the state.

At the moment, it's the Iron Range-based 8th District, where GOP Rep. Chip Cravaack rates as one of the most vulnerable freshmen, that's widely thought to be the state's most competitive House race.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-mahtesian/2012/09/bachmann-million-and-counting-136316.html

[MineralMan]

1. There are a couple of new ads in the TV loop this week.

One, paid for by Bachmann, is an ugly, garish attack ad that seems ineffective to me. The other, from the NRCC, is another attack ad, attempting to lie about the Medicare "cuts," etc. It's ineffective, too, and just tells the same lies over and over again.

Her opponent, Jim Graves, is running a quiet ad introducing himself as a family man with reasonable ideas. It never mentions Bachmann. Is it effective? I'm not sure. Bachmann appears to be talking to her ultra-conservative base, which is already going to vote for her. Graves' ad is a broad-based personal ad, designed to picture him as a typical Minnesota person. It talks about him and his wife, who is also his childhood sweetheart, starting the AmericInn motel chain with $2000. Then it shows him later, with a large, smiling family. That's it. No arguments. No boasting. None of the blown-hard ugly rhetoric of the Bachmann ads.

I think that the Graves ad is more effective in reaching people who are not cave-dwelling teabaggers. In other words, normal Minnesotans. It could work.

[dballance]

2. Well, too bad she is losing

Bachman is certainly a person I'd describe with a word that rhymes with punt. She and her totally gay husband really need to disappear into nothingness. Can anyone be more flaming gay than Marcus?

[Politicalboi]

3. Marcus is gay?

You don't say.

Now if only Michelle knew.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Maybe she could take up a collection from the wealthy guests at the Overlook Hotel

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Graves will need door knockers

and lit droppers. This is how you take the whinny bitch out. Turn the tables on her,she used the Mega Church in Brooklyn Park as her go to people. That's her base plus the magic undie crowd. Help Graves by phone banking and banging on doors. Just remind folks of her farm subsidies she gets (250,000.00)for their Baldwin area rip off. Mn 6 has the highest job loss in the state,use it,and her ties to the Koch's. If the twit gets reelected,then Mn 6 deserves her and just write it off.