Bachmann Visiting Iowa For College Football

Republican Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is heading to Iowa on Saturday to attend college football festivities as part of her presidential campaign. 

Bachmann will be meeting up with State Senator Jack Whitver (R-Iowa) before the Iowa-Iowa State football game and will engage voters as she participates in tailgate activities at the East Stadium Gate at the Jack Trice Stadium.

Bachmann quickly gained support of voters when she entered the race back in June, reeling in a victory from the Ames Straw Poll in early August. Since then, however, her campaign has spiraled dowhnhill with her campaign manager, Ed Rollins, stepping down on September 4 and her ratings falling from 16 percent to 8 percent according to the latest NBC/ Wall Street Journal poll. 

AP: Murkowski Takes Alaska

The Associated Press is reporting that write in candidate Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has been re-elected to her US Senate seat by a margin of around 10,000 votes over Tea Party rival Joe Miller.  

The official word on the victory came when election officials came down to the last 700 votes and found Murkowski’s lead insurmountable.  Murkowski lost her Republican primary bid to the Sarah Palin supported Miller, who has vowed on several occasions to take legal action against the write in vote count. 

Johnson Ahead Of Feingold By 8 Percent

In a poll conducted Wednesday by CNN, Time and Opinion Research Corporation, Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold (D) is behind Republican nominee and tea party favorite Ron Johnson by an eight point margin with Johnson holding 52 percent of potential voters and Feingold grabbing 44 percent. 

Favorable Rating Doesn't Equal Votes For Tea Party

A Hill/ANGA 2010 Midterm Election Poll found a 45-34 favorable-unfavorable rating for the Tea Party movement in 12 competitive districts.

Poll also found that 55 percent of Independent and 53 percent of Republican voters say that an endorsement of a candidate by the Tea Party will not sway their election day decision.  Half of Democrats say that Tea Party support will make them less likely to support a candidate. This means that Tea Party support will more likely cause a slightly higher number of Democratic voters to turn away from candidate then it will rally Republican and Independent voters around them.  

Report: Obama Aides Pondering Tea Party Attack

White House advisers are flirting with a campaign aimed at linking the tea party movement with the Republican establishment, according to a story Monday in the New York Times.

The campaign would reportedly seek to capitalize on concerns that the handful of tea party candidates who have won their party’s primaries are out of step with mainstream voters.

The White House has denied giving such a move consideration. Politico reports that an administration official decried the piece as “100 percent inaccurate.”

The Times story comes the week after controversial tea party favorite Christine O’Donnell beat moderate Mike Castle in Delaware’s Republican primary. The unlikely win was widely trumpeted as the death knell for a Republican comeback in the Senate.