2. Michele Bachmann was born April 6, 1956 in
Waterloo, Iowa – a point she emphasizes
frequently in her campaign for the presidency.
She was raised in Iowa, and later, Minnesota,
before graduating in 1978 with degree from the
Winona State University.
She later earned her law degree from J.D. Oral
Roberts University and pursued post graduate
studies at the William & Mary School of Law.
Bachmann worked as a tax attorney from 1988-
1993 before taking time off professionally to
spend time with her husband, Marcus
Bachmann and to raise her five children, and
twenty-three foster children.
Bachmann was first elected to the Minnesota
state Senate in 2000 and was elected to
Congress in 2006. During her time in the House,
Bachmann emerged as one of the most visible
opponents of President Obama’s healthcare
law, and founded the House Tea Party Caucus.

3.  Bachmann grew up in an Evangelical Christian
democrat household. This life allows her to
understand what democrats want in
general, as well as their need of increasing
possible jobs. This relationship with democrats
allows her to relate to them because of her
early democratic home life and build an
understanding for their life style.
 Bachmann decided to run for president
because she felt it was the right thing to do.
She felt as though it was “tugging on her
heart.”

4.  Endorsers of Bachmann
are Wayne
Newton, Ryan Rhodes
(Iowa tea party
founder), Glenn
Beck, The Pagan
Temple, Bill Clinton, Eric
Holmberg, and Steve
King.

5.  Jobs: Michele Bachmann's jobs plan calls for
repealing Obama's health care and Wall St. reform
laws, along with cuts to tax rates, government
spending, and loosened regulations especially on
energy production.
 Taxes: Bachmann would like to reduce the number of
tax brackets and make the code “simpler.” She
opposed the two year extension of Bush's tax cuts
because she is in favor of a permanent extension of
those rates.
 Budget: Bachmann strongly opposes raising the debt
ceiling in favor of the “cut, cap, and balance”
pledge (cap on level of government spending,
balanced budget amendment”.
 Entitlement programs: Bachmann thinks that
Medicare and social security should be preserved for
people who are currently retired, but that we should
call for reforms for younger Americans.

6.  Health care reform: Bachmann very strongly opposes Obamacare
and wishes to focus on repealing Obamacare and to instead allow
Americans to purchase any healthcare policy they want from any
state with no minimum mandates using tax free dollars and fully
deductable on tax returns.
 Immigration: Bachmann signed a pledge to build a two layered
fence along the whole border between the U.S. And Mexico by the
end of 2013.
 Abortion: Bachmann views herself as 100 percent pro-life, from
concept until natural death.
 Energy/ Environment: Bachmann pledges to get the price of gas
under 2 dollar per gallon if elected. She favors new permits for oil
drilling, including in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, and would
encourage new natural gas exploration.
 Same sex marriage: Bachmann supports amendments to the U.S.
constitution and state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage.
 Climate Change: Bachmann has called the notion of man-made
climate change "manufactured science".

8. Bachmann participated in the second
debate in New Hampshire on June 13,
2011.
She then announced that she had filled
out paperwork with the FEC to become a
candidate for the GOP nomination.
She formally announced her candidacy
for the 2012 republican presidential
nomination on June 27, 2011.
Bachmann rallied the base, and won the
Iowa Straw Poll which secured her a place
as a front runner for the republican
nomination. This boost gave her early
support, especially amongst the Tea Party
group.

9.  National Party  Currently,
Convention- national conventions are
meeting of laced with important
delegates elected events and
who assemble to speeches scheduled
choose candidates for prime-time
for president and television hours,
vice president, edit allowing them the
platform, elect opportunity to show
officers and adopt off the personalities
news. of the candidates.

10.  The keynote address will include the party
platform as well as be a very valuable
experience.
 A party platform is a combination of the
thoughts and values about national issues
that a party holds. Our party platform from
our nominating convention would be very
conservative, and reflect many of
Bachmann’s principals that are included in
her platform.
 The party platform will decide the direction that
the republican party will take. After deciding how
the party is going to deal with national issues, it is
left to the president to try and implement most of
it.
 The keynote address helps add to the value of the
convention by making the party come together.
By endorsing party programs, everyone
bonds, forgets about their hurt feelings from
primaries and unite to try and propel their party
forward.

11.  Day 1: Keynote address and speeches take place. This is a vital
day to the candidates because everyone tunes to the
televisions to listen to their potential commander in chief speak.
 Bachmann has to play up her conservative side during this day.
The only people who she really needs to influence are the
republicans because they are the ones who have to chose her
to represent them.
 Day 2: Committee reports, party and convention rules, party
platform
 Day 3: President and vice president balloting.
 Day 4: Candidates acceptance speech takes place. This is
another very important day because it will define them and their
candidacy as well as be closely watched.
 Now that Bachmann has the necessary republican support, she
needs to follow Ronald Reagan’s idea of using a quote from a
former powerful democrat in order to attract the democrats and
independents to follow her.

12. I would pick Jon Huntsman to
be the vice-presidential
nominee. Bachmann chose
Huntsman because he will
benefit our race by helping
attract the liberal and
independent voters because
he has many more liberal
views. Jon’s foreign policy
experience is vital to helping
Bachmann have a stronger
stance on issues regarding the
United State’s relationship with
China.

13.  Individuals may give $2,500 to a candidate for
each primary election.
 National Party Committee may give $5,000.
 State, District, and Local Party Committee
combined may give $5,000.
 Multicandidate PACs may give $5,000.
 Non multicandidate PACs may give $2,500.
 Authorized Campaign Committee may give
$2,000.
 Candidates can spend unlimited amounts of
their own money towards their campaign.

14.  To mount a serious  This money is used to
campaign, candidat make ads and
es must raise a lot of influence the public
money. to vote for our
 The more money a candidate.
candidate has for
their campaign, the
better chance they
have in the election.

15.  Michele has raised
$14,620,558.
 Michele has spent $16,589,153.
 The top donors to Michele’s
campaign are Fagen Inc. and
Upsher-Smith Laboratories.
 The top independent
expenditures and 527s in
Michele’s campaign is NARAL
Pro-Choice America.

16.  Presidential debates have turned into a time for the
nominees to simply state their opening and closing
statements instead of arguing and debating
amongst each other.
 Presidential debates have proven to greatly
influence the general public’s view of each
candidate. They are a great time to influence the
public by appearing pulled together and speaking
with a strong, firm voice.
 Debates allow the candidates to show off by using
fancy words and describing how they are the most
qualified candidate for the presidency.
 Polls have shown that whoever the public views as
the winner of the debates, is greatly
accepted, and therefore has a better chance of
winning the presidency.
 Michele Bachmann has done well in the primary
debates, but has not gotten many questions or
time to express her views and platform.
 Although debates appear to be helpful, in the
end they are not the deciding factor in who is
nominated, they are simply a possible boost to
one’s publicity

17.  Bachmann’s main strategy is to win not only the conservative voters by
rallying the base, but to win the independents and liberal voters.
 Bachmann has been stressing the point that her home state of
Minnesota is not a conservative state. After saying that her home district
is a swing district, she says that she has been able to attract a lot of
people from different parties to vote for her.
 Bachmann has been trying to focus on discussing the economy. The
problems of our economy has seemed to be the focus of this
election, and Bachmann predicts that her view on our economy will
attract independent voters to join her in her campaign.
 Bachmann is also rallying the Tea Party voters by stating that she has
been in Washington fighting for what she and they believe is just, for the
last four or five years.
 Bachmann brings up the point that she not only raised the debt
ceiling, but she was also the first member of Congress to introduce the
full repeal of Obamacare.
 Bachmann has stated that her strategy is to win. She is going “to take
on [Obama] and to defeat him in 2012, because we have to turn the
economy around and create jobs. That’s what I’m going to do,” on
ABC.

18.  Bachmann would benefit from following the model of
Reagan’s campaign which proved to be highly
successful seeing as he was also reelected to office.
Reagan had a tendency to not focus on facts, but to
talk about issues in a broad way. When Reagan was
running for president in 1980, American was in a state
similar to the one we are now in. Not only were we
facing a recession, but American’s spirits were very
low. The public responded enthusiastically when
Reagan spoke of being optimistic about America’s
future. Lifting the people’s hopes resulted in Reagan
winning 50.75% of the popular vote and 90.9% of the
electoral vote.

19.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-
IBF8nwSY