Get Lots of Small Donations, Use The Netroots, Use Youtube
There are a couple of lessons to take away from Elwyn Tinklenberg’s fundraising gusher.
`Anti-American’ comments hurt Minn. rep’s campaign
By MARTIGA LOHN – 11 hours ago
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann spent months building her profile through appearances on “Larry King Live” and other TV talk shows. It took only a few minutes of airtime, and one disparaging remark about Barack Obama, to undo it.
After saying on MSNBC’s “Hardball” that Obama “may have anti-American views,” Bachmann found herself fending off criticism from former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican, and Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Worse, Bachmann’s comment uncorked a gusher of donations to her opponent, transforming a race she had been favored to win into one more worry spot for Republicans.
Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg said his campaign brought in $740,000 in less than 72 hours, an amount he could only have imagined before Bachmann’s remarks. It took the former state transportation commissioner a year to raise $1 million before that, and Bachmann started the campaign’s critical final month with almost four times as much cash as he hand.
The money advantage that entrenched incumbents have can be evened out if challengers are smart about it.
We were worried about the 527s and we had the antidote all along. It’s the internet, stupid. Now doesn’t that have a nice ring to it?
And I hear that the DCCC is dumping $1mil into this race now too.
Definitely send this aspirant to the new House UnAmerican Activities Committee back to fishing for muskies.
I’m sure Coleman is pleased about her comments too. Franken might as well receive a bump.
From Politico on Bachmann:
jason: The money advantage that entrenched incumbents have can be evened out if challengers are smart about it.
Agreed; although I think this is more of a case of the incumbent being moronic rather than the challenger being smart. Same result.
She practically made out with Dubya, offers to kiss Obama if he wins (and visits her district), and is “hot for Jesus”. Yeesh, Bachmann, try and control those hormones a bit! Hopefully after this election, her and that sleaze Mahoney will by out of a job and have more time for group therapy.
heh… never give the other team a quote to put on their locker room bulletin board…
Considering the idiocy that’s been coming out of her mouth for past 2 years, I think she’s the original ‘Palin’.
She’s an empty pantsuit, bloviating religious rhetoric, without any true understanding of practical matters.
In other words – a semi-attractive woman most male voters would sleep with after trolling around at a bar. But after the initial hook-up, they realize she’s a nutjob and wished she stop calling every 5 minutes.