Pennsylvania Republicans are planning to change the state’s way of apportioning electoral college votes, getting rid of winner take all. Since Dems usually win Pennsylvania that would have the effect of neutralizing the state in the Electoral College. And it could have a big effect on the outcome of next year’s election.

One of the funny things about covering Michele Bachmann’s presidential bid is that for most observers she’s a pretty recent entry on to the national stage. Here at TPM though we’ve been following her pretty closely back as far as 2008, actually even further back. So picking up a random conspiracy theory that Gardasil causes ‘sudden retardation‘ in young girls just isn’t that surprising. As just one example of numerous examples — but also on health care — here’s Bachmann from early 2010 claiming that people who criticize ‘government health care’ can have their health care ‘revoked’.