To those in Bachmann's Congressional District - how does she get elected?

[ThomWV]

It is difficult for me to imagine how Michael Bachmann manages to get elected. What appeal does she hold for voters in that district and how is it that such extreme positions as her's are respected there? It is simply a matter of better people not coming out to vote or are the majority of people of that district disposed to agree with her? I would think she would hold the most vulnerable seat in the House of Representatives - surely it can't be that hard to knock an idiot off a fence.

[liberal N proud]

1. Gerrymandering

I am not from Minnesota but this is how these crazies get elected time and time again.

The districts were redrawn at some point to give a specific party/candidate an edge over another. The draw the lines for the district to include the highest percentages of republicans in one district and squeeze another or even draw it in such a way that the the representative is spread too thin to be re-elected.

[madokie]

4. Tom coburn and Jimmy boy inhofe

plus danny the puke in dems clothing boren. Gerrymandering and plain ass stupid people voting.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Correct..I have posted this over and over SHE

has the most gerrymandered district in the state of Minnesota. All republican area. But if she should win this election, as I pointed out, she is done for after this. We are losing a representative. The districts have already been redrawn to reflect this for the 2012 election and she doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell. The district was been split between two democratic districts and the people who win them have been there for several decades. A lot of people tho in her district are complaining that she is running around the country trying to be a celebrity and ignoring them. So she just might not win. They are upset she has done nothing in the last two years but rant and rave and let her district go. She is now trying to repair her image in the Minneapolis area. Don't know if it will work tho. Most Minnesotans are as crazy as the rest of the country.

[Bitwit1234]

3. Meant to say Minnesotans are NOT as crazy as the rest of the

republicans in this country.

[Morning Dew]

5. Redistricting after the 2000 census

forced the Dem. incumbent to run in another congressional district. The 6th then got a Repub. representative who tried for the Senate in '06 leaving the seat open for Bachmann to get elected.

It seems like forever but she's only on her second term.

ETA: maybe this redistricting wasn't census related, I'm not sure. But it was redistricted.

[Blue Owl]

6. I hope there's a special segment on Colbert's "Better Know a District"

The Fightin' 6th!

[Morning Dew]

7. Fightin' 6th is about right.

That CD used to go back and forth between Dem and Repub pretty regularly.

Now it's gerrymandered so it may stay in Republican hands until it gets redistricted again.

[newspeak]

9. I mean for a repug to vote for, in my opionion, an "extrreme, out there repug

over another candidate is still saying something about her constituency. And if Nevada votes in Angles, I'll know just how ignorant some of the population in Nevada really is--it was bad enough voting in Gibbons after some of the crap that happened before the election--but an Angle gives a whole new look of some of the people voting here.

I've said before, we moved back to Nevada because of family--but I'd love to move in a heartbeat-I don't want to live around mean, ignorant and crazies.

And, my hubby was born and raised in Nevada-Nevada wasn't this way before--I mean there's always been some political wrangling, but we didn't have as many totally off the chart right wing wackos.

[TheMuse]

8. This is a question I have asked many times

Even if it is a gerrymandered district, there has to be other republican candidates that posses qualities she doesn't. Like a brain.

This woman needs to be put on meds. Badly. She really does make her district look bad. There can't be that many tea partiers in that one district, can there?