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[MN-06] Uprooting GOP House Freshman Could Be Tough Row to Hoe for Minnesota Dems
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Oct 10, 2007 09:39pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, October 11, 2007 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Grigs Crawford, CQ Staff
Freshman Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann will not have a free pass in her 2008 bid for re-election in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District. But the pressure may be greater on Democratic Party officials, for whom next year’s contest may be their last best chance to prevent Bachmann from settling into a long House tenure.
According to Lawrence Jacobs, a leading analyst of Minnesota politics, the strongly conservative Bachmann will face a competitive race. “Bachmann’s been working hard because she knows she’s getting a challenge,” said Jacobs, who directs the University of Minnesota’s Center for Politics and Governance.
But he added that should Bachmann succeed, her enhanced powers of incumbency could enable her to lock down the district for a number of years to come.
Bachmann’s 2006 victory to succeed three-term Republican Rep. Mark Kennedy — who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate that year — could hardly be called a landslide, as she received a bare majority of 50 percent of the vote. But she nonetheless won by a comfortable margin over Democrat Patty Wetterling, a well-known child safety advocate who took 42 percent after receiving 46 percent in a one-on-one challenge to Kennedy in the 2004 House race. The remaining 8 percent of the 2006 vote went to Independence Party candidate John Paul Binkowski. |
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