Michelle Bachmann is a GOP Bush-loving, gay hating, religiophile. She's paranoid and just plain crazy. If the GOP wants to keep their majority in the House, they need to hold onto this district.
Patty Wetterling is fairly close in the polls, so that means it's time for the GOP to do what it does best - lie.
The National Republican Congressional Committee has sent two literature pieces to households in the Sixth Congressional District attacking Democrat Patty Wetterling for failing to vote in three elections.
The attacks are inaccurate. Calling them merely deceptive would be a kindness. The Wetterling campaign calls them a "lie." You decide.
in 2000 and 2002, Patty Wetterling failed to vote in the primary elections. The literature implies that she failed to vote at all. In 2004, when she ran for Congress the first time, she voted in both the primary and general elections.
The election she missed?
With regard to 2000 and 2002, the NRCC statement strongly implies that Wetterling didn't vote at all, which is misleading. But with reference to 2004, Wetterling voted in both the primary and the general elections. NRCC spokesman Jonathan Collegio says Wetterling didn't vote in the 2004 "presidential preference ballot."
There was no presidential primary in Minnesota. But, as DFLers entered their precinct caucuses in March, they were offered a chance to express a preference for a presidential candidate, although it had no effect on delegates to the nominating convention.
Was the non-binding ballot an "election" in which Wetterling failed to vote?
No public records reflect who voted in that exercise. Collegio did not offer any evidence to back up the NRCC's claim that Wetterling failed to participate. But Wetterling campaign manager Corey Day asked Wetterling about it, and she said she had not attended a precinct caucus that year.
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Hatch Leads in new poll.
The headline the Star Tribune uses is misleading. It says they're tied (as in having the same percentage). In the poll, Mike Hatch actually leads 44-42 with at 3.9% MoE. The Star Tribune poll on Sunday found them both tied at 42%
The plus side is that they'll be debating 5 times before now and the general election.