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Bachmann’s South Carolina Chair warned of hyperinflation, proposed new state currency

By | 11.15.11 | 11:30 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

Rep. Michele Bachmann announced Tuesday that her presidential campaign chairman in South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, is state Sen. Lee Bright, who has made comments about secession and introduced a bill to study whether the state should start printing its own currency.

Romney’s Florida team includes many anti-gay activists

By | 11.14.11 | 5:57 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced the members of his Social Conservatives Statewide Steering Committee today; the list includes prominent anti-gay rights and anti-abortion rights activists in Florida’s Christian right circles.

VIDEO: Bachmann targets rival GOP candidates for flip-flopping

By | 11.14.11 | 2:06 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign released a video this weekend targeting virtually all of the Republican presidential front-runners for flip-flopping.

CBS accused of liberal bias over email sent accidentally to Bachmann campaign

By | 11.14.11 | 10:12 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

Michele Bachmann’s campaign and CBS News clashed over the weekend when her campaign was accidentally included on an email chain with CBS News’ John Dickerson explaining that Bachmann would not get as much attention during and after Saturday’s presidential debate.

Harkin says GOP calls for ending Department of Education are ‘nonsense’

By | 11.11.11 | 3:06 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

DES MOINES — U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Cumming) calls it “nonsense” for politicians to suggest doing away with the U.S. Department of Education, saying “that flies in the face of 200 years of U.S. history.”

Bachmann disrupted by Occupy protesters at S.C. speech (video)

By | 11.10.11 | 11:26 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Rep. Michele Bachmann. Photo: WDCpix

Members of the occupy movement interrupted U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s scheduled foreign policy speech in South Carolina Thursday, forcing the candidate to exit the stage.

(Video) AINN reporters give home-state insight into 2012 candidates Bachmann and Perry

By | 11.10.11 | 3:13 pm

Last night’s GOP presidential debate in Michigan featured nine candidates vying for the party’s nomination in 2012. Among the participants were U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Texas Governor Rick Perry, two candidates who have seen their respective campaigns reach considerable buzz and hype, followed by an equally impressive More…

Bets on Gingrich rising in Iowa futures market

By | 11.09.11 | 11:39 am | More from The Iowa Independent

GOP presidential candidate and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s stock is up on the Iowa Electronic Markets, a real money futures market operated by the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business.

GOP candidates are not spending much money in Iowa

By | 11.08.11 | 3:06 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Republican candidates for president are not spending much of their campaign war chests in Iowa, an analysis from The Huffington Post shows.

Bachmann reiterates commitment to federal ban on same-sex marriage

By | 11.08.11 | 11:39 am | More from The Colorado Independent

Rep. Michele Bachmann at her Aug. 28 rally. Photo: Patrick Caldwell

At a speech Monday hosted by the Family Research Council—a conservative Christian organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as a hate group—U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann said she would defeat socialism, described leading Republican candidates for the White House as “frugal socialists” and accused Pres. Barack Obama More…