WASHINGTON As she mulls over a run for the White House, Rep. Michele Bachmann says she is spending time reading books about presidential campaigns particularly ones that explore the darker side of campaigns.
Bachmann is expected to announce sometime in the next month that she’ll form an exploratory committee for president senior aides say she’s "very likely to run" and the congresswoman told MinnPost that if she does indeed run, she will retain her House seat throughout at least the primary campaign.
In interviews with MinnPost, Bachmann said that as she prepares to make her decision, she’s gone cover to cover on "The Politician," a book written by a former John Edwards staffer that details the lengths Edwards went to in order to cover up an affair even as his wife was fighting a recurrence of cancer.
She also read "Game Change," an in depth account by a pair of veteran political reporters of the 2008 election that allegedly convinced South Dakota Sen. John Thune’s wife that she wanted no part of a presidential bid.
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Bachmann staffers wouldn’t say exactly where or when she might make that announcement, and in an interview with MinnPost earlier this month, Bachmann wasn’t saying.
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So what would that campaign look like?
Bachmann has long said that any campaign announcement would be early enough to give her a shot at really competing in the Iowa Straw Poll, this August in Ames. It’s a test of campaigns’ organizational skills and an early indicator of whether they can get activists to not just say they’re supportive, but actually take a weekend and drive to the middle of the state to stand and be counted.
She has taken some of the traditional steps she was in New York City this week shopping a book dealwith a targeted publication date of September.
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She took in more than $13 million for her House race in 2009 10, most in the country for a House race, and much of that came from small donors outside of Minnesota. In the first quarter of 2011, her $2.2 million between her PAC and congressional campaign was actually more than Mitt Romney pulled in.
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If she decides to run, Bachmann will start off with a campaign apparatus that looks nothing like that of the front running Romney or Pawlenty, both of whom have dozens of staffers already on the payroll.
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Bachmann, however, says she is building an organization in each of the first three states Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina and that they’ll be ready to go if and when she enters the race.
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