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| Michele Bachmann |
The ideology of the candidate is fully conservative. Evangelical, denies evolution. In 1978 she married the psychologist Marcus Bachmann, who has a clinic in Minnesota in which in the past has tried to cure homosexuals. In 2004, a conference, the candidate said that "gays are part of Satan." Even though he has retracted statements like, continues to oppose the approval of marriage between persons of the same sex. It has five natural children and participated in a host program in which housed 23 girls with social problems.
One of the main obstacles is the female vote. Bachmann, despite being a woman in politics, has come to preach the female subordination to the husband. In 2006 he said in a speech: "wives, be submissive to your husbands". In interviews after he qualified that "submission" is understood as "mutual respect". It has a curriculum especially bright in the Congress of Washington, where it has not approved any written law or proposed by it in the past five years (The one that had some currency was called Freedom of Choice Act Bulb).
Bachmann achieved some fame in the previous presidential election in 2008, when he said that "Barack Obama may have anti-American thoughts." Given the risky claims, closed his campaign in Iowa on January 2, with an ad that claimed to be "the American Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher equated with. Despite generating considerable attention, came to the appointment with the polls in Iowa sixth in the polls, based on average of Real Clear Politics polls.
In August did briefly take the lead by winning with 29% of the vote, elections for guidance in Ames, Iowa His victory made the political left former governor of the same state, Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, more moderate than her social affairs. The bonanza was short-lived surveys to Bachmann. It was soon superseded by the shooting star that would be another conservative in the primaries, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, which appeals to the same electorate that the congressman.
