Behold the Michele Bachmann Effect

By Talking Points Memo

March 26, 2009

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TPM has done a wonderful job of documenting what it is calling "The Bachmann Effect": the slack-jawed, brow-furrowed response Michele Bachmann's often embarrassingly off base comments provoke in the faces of her debate opponents. This clip shows how it affects Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, her Democratic rival El Tinklenberg and political consultant James Carville.

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