Rep. Bachmann Holds Off the Blue Tidal Wave

Easha Anand reports on a Minnesota House race. Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann won re-election in Minnesota, illustrating that although Democrats netted gains in the House, the blue tidal wave that some predicted didn’t materialize. Republicans lost fewer seats this year than in 2006, and several embattled incumbents managed to stay afloat. Associated Press Rep. Michele Bachmann at Republican headquarters on Tuesday in Bloomington, Minn. (Associated Press) See a related slideshow Bachmann gained notoriety in the weeks before the election over an interview on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” where she told host Chris Matthews that many of Barack Obama ’s associates, as well as many of her colleagues in Congress, could be characterized as anti-American. “I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America?” Bachmann said. In the weeks following the television ... (link)