In Minnesota: Bad News for Bachmann
After Michele Bachmann went rabid last Friday on Hardball, the news she has been receiving continues to be bad. Besides the $800,000 her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, has taken in since she went ballistic, Michele is now facing another new threat, a write-in Republican challenger.
Bachmann earlier won the GOP primary against a St Johns University college professor, Aubrey Immelman. St Johns is a Catholic school and Immelman has taught there since 1991.
On Saturday Immelman announced he was mounting a write-in campaign as a Republican, to unseat Bachmann.
Immelman, an immigrant from South Africa, who describes himself as a moderate Republican, on Monday said, "I gave up everything to come here, which is why I feel so strongly about the direction my country is taking. I'm a proud, patriotic American. And I cannot tolerate this festering brand of neo-McCarthyism Michele Bachmann is pushing."
Immelman will definitely pull some moderate Republican votes and expect him to do well from Catholics as well. But will there be enough write-ins to unseat the Queen of Hate?
We'll know in two weeks but it clearly is now possible.
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Bachmann earlier won the GOP primary against a St Johns University college professor, Aubrey Immelman. St Johns is a Catholic school and Immelman has taught there since 1991.
On Saturday Immelman announced he was mounting a write-in campaign as a Republican, to unseat Bachmann.
Immelman, an immigrant from South Africa, who describes himself as a moderate Republican, on Monday said, "I gave up everything to come here, which is why I feel so strongly about the direction my country is taking. I'm a proud, patriotic American. And I cannot tolerate this festering brand of neo-McCarthyism Michele Bachmann is pushing."
Immelman will definitely pull some moderate Republican votes and expect him to do well from Catholics as well. But will there be enough write-ins to unseat the Queen of Hate?
We'll know in two weeks but it clearly is now possible.
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
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My sister lives in DC, and grumbles that after she contributes a hundred bucks she gets repeated fundraising calls.
This year is different, she's not grumbling, and actually is making calls for Obama. Point of the story is she was so pissed after listening to Bachman she sent some money to Tinklenberg, part of the surge of donations.
October 21, 2008 1:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's hope the write-in challenger drains votes from Bachmann -- instead of from the other moderate: the Democrat.
October 21, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
The votes Immelman pulls will be from the St Cloud area and that area leans Republican.
October 21, 2008 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink