BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann Says She Will Not Run for Re-Election in 2014

[SomeGuyInEagan]

78. The MN 6th a gerry-mandered district ...

It carefully horseshoes around the Twin Cities metro, includes some very conservative strongholds and runs West-to-East for quite a ways to the Wisconsin border.

The redistricting resulting from the 2010 census moved eastern suburb of Woodbury (red but not as red as other parts of the 6th) out of the 6th. This included Bachmann's home (yes - she no longer lives in the district she represents - which is legal in Minnesota).

She has already been running ads a full 18 months before the 2014 election and some surveys showed her behind prospective DFL challenger Jim Graves (who lost by a few hundred votes to Bachmann in 2012).

As severely red as the MN 6th is, she has only once won with more than 50% of the vote (52% in 2010, when the anti-Obama backlash hit everywhere). Otherwise, it has been 50% in '06, 46.41% in '08 and 50.47% last year.

As crazy as Bachmann is, she really has not done much. John Kline in the MN 2nd is far worse and more dangerous, IMO.