Bachmann

Bachmann Breaks Barrier

The Daily Beast | Posted 05.30.2012

Nearly five months after dropping out of the Republican primary after her last-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, Michele Bachmann made history in Tex...

Michele Bachmann's Fundraising Whopper

Posted 05.15.2012

The Following post first appeared on FactCheck.org. In several urgent fundraising appeals, Rep. Michele Bachmann falsely claims that biased “...

Bachmann Withdraws Swiss Citizenship

Posted 05.10.2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has decided to withdraw her dual Swiss citizenship. The conservative congresswoman addressed the matter in a state...

Bachmann Claims Swiss Citizenship

Posted 05.09.2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has been granted citizenship in Switzerland. Becky Rogness, a spokeswoman for the conservative congresswoman, said ...

Bachmann: Campaign Was 'Almost Mistake Free'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 05.04.2012

Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) declared that she ran a presidential campaign that was "almost mistake free" in an interview with Christian Broadcast...

Bachmann Haul Disappointing

The Hill | By Justin Sink | Posted 04.14.2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) raised just over half a million dollars in the first quarter of 2012, her campaign announced Friday. Bachmann's $55...

Bachmann Sounds Dire Warning About Contraception Mandate

Posted 03.07.2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) warned Tuesday that President Barack Obama's contraception mandate requiring most religiously-affiliated employers' he...

Bachmann Makes 2012 Decision

AP | PATRICK CONDON | Posted 04.22.2012

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Fresh off the national stage of a failed presidential bid, Republican Michele Bachmann said Tuesday that she will seek re-elec...

WATCH: Bachmann Makes Huge Boast

Posted 02.06.2012

Former GOP presidential candidate and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) weighed in on the state of the Republican primary race in a recent interview, de...

Bachmann Makes Staff Shift

AP | Posted 02.06.2012

MINNEAPOLIS -- Rep. Michele Bachmann has named Chase Kroll to run her campaign for a fourth term in the U.S. House. Kroll was political director for ...

Romney Skips To Minnesota Amid Talks Of Big Endorsement

Posted 02.01.2012

Fresh off a landslide victory in the Florida primary, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney flew to Minnesota Tuesday, rather than to the next...

Election 2012, The Series: Bridezillas, Revenge Or The Housewives Of D.C.?

Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 03.28.2012

Lorraine Devon Wilke

Unlike a 13-episode arc that can be mercifully cancelled when the audience clicks away, we are obligated to suffer through the soap opera plot twists and nefarious characterizations of the characters all the way up to that seemingly ever-distant date in November.

Bachmann Makes Decision On Her Political Future

AP | By DOUG GLASS | Posted 03.26.2012

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann swept aside doubts about her political future Wednesday, declaring less than a month after ending her p...

Sam Stein

Bachmann Campaign Disputes Anti-Gingrich Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.19.2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann will not be joining Texas Gov. Rick Perry among failed presidential candidates willing to back former House Speaker Newt Gingric...

Santorum Staffer Under Fire For 'Sexist' Email

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 01.15.2012

A staffer to Rick Santorum is roiled in controversy as the Des Moines Register revealed parts of an email he wrote last summer questioning whether a w...

Rick Perry as Carmen?: GOP Candidates Reimagined as Famous Opera Characters, Part 1

Jade Simmons | Posted 03.06.2012

Jade Simmons

I'll admit the analogies don't always hold up until the last act, but you'll get the similarities between the memorable opera favorites and the complicated figures that are currently gracing our nation's political stage.

Jason Linkins

A Fond Farewell To Michele Bachmann

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.30.2012

The Iowa caucuses are perhaps better known as a contest that culls certain losers from a field of candidates than one that anoints the winner. But thi...

Bachmann Faces Big Decision

AP | By PATRICK CONDON and BRIAN BAKST | Posted 01.05.2012

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Michele Bachmann's decision to end her presidential campaign leaves the Minnesota Republican with another big one: whether to seek ...

Pictures Of The Bachmanns And Dogs Wearing Sunglasses

Posted 01.04.2012

Before Michele Bachmann dropped out of the GOP presidential race race on Wednesday after the Iowa caucus, her husband Marcus spent the day with anothe...

Out of Iowa

Richard Klass | Posted 03.05.2012

Richard Klass

Romney's narrow eight-vote victory over former Senator Rick Santorum was a small step backwards among Iowa voters after four years of courtship and campaigning.

Michele Bachmann Ends Presidential Campaign

Posted 01.04.2012

After a poor showing in Tuesday night's Iowa caucus, Michele Bachmann announced that she will be ending her campaign for the Republican presidential n...

Results and Consequences

Robert Hoopes | Posted 03.05.2012

Robert Hoopes

Will Romney be able to conduct a campaign fighting on four fronts, and ultimately take the presidency? I don't think so.

Gingrich, Santorum, Perry, Bachmann to Court: "Will an (Activist) Judge Put Me on Virginia Ballot?"

Paul Abrams | Posted 03.04.2012

Paul Abrams

Virginia Law sets the conditions for candidates to get on the Virginia primary ballot. Now come Gingrich, Santorum, Perry and Bachmann asking a judge to overrule the law and put them on the ballot. What kind of judge could possibly do that?

2012's Worst Rose Parade Floats (Doug's Dozen VIDEO)

Doug Molitor | Posted 03.04.2012

Doug Molitor

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Bachmann Hopes For Divine Intervention

Posted 01.03.2012

After emerging victorious in the Ames Straw Poll last August, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann has traversed a rocky road in her pursuit of the White House....