Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Redistricting map helps Bachmann (Politico)

GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann is well-positioned for reelection under a newly-drawn Minnesota congressional map.

Under the plan, Bachmann, a third-term congresswoman who waged an unsuccessful bid for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, will run in a Republican-friendly district in the suburban Twin Cities area that will actually be slightly safer for her than her current one.

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The map, released Tuesday afternoon, was crafted by a five-judge panel that had been tasked with drawing the lines after Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and the Republican-controlled state legislature failed to reach a compromise on the state?s redistricting.

The court placed Bachmann in the same Democratic-leaning, 4th district seat as nearby Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum, but it left an adjacent, northern Minnesota-based 6th seat vacant that the Republican congresswoman has chosen to run in.

Bachmann, whose Stillwater home is located in the new 4th district, immediately announced on Tuesday that she would move in order to run in the 6th district. After ending her presidential bid, the congresswoman had said that she would seek another House term no matter how redistricting transformed her seat.

?I?m announcing today that I will be running in the 6th Congressional district. I?ll continue my service to the people in the district where I essentially went to junior high, high school, college, had my babies born and we built our business and we have our church and our family,? Bachmann said in a statement to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The new map is expected to do little to change the composition of the eight-seat House delegation, which is divided evenly between the two parties. Aside from Bachmann and McCollum, the only member who will see a marked shift is GOP Rep. John Kline, whose 2nd district seat will become slightly more Democratic-friendly.

Both parties plan to aggressively target seats in the state. Democrat Tarryl Clark, who waged an unsuccessful 2010 bid to unseat Bachmann, is challenging Rep. Chip Cravaack, a vulnerable freshman Republican. Republicans, meanwhile, are looking to topple Democratic Rep. Tim Walz in the southern Minnesota-based 1st District.

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