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The Tension Mounts

by Josh Marshall
10.23.08 | 2:32 pm

For all the news coming out of the self-inflicted Michelle Bachmann ‘anti-American’ trainwreck, we still haven’t gotten any polling data out of the district to tell us who’s actually head. But we will tonight when SurveyUSA releases the first public poll of the race since Bachmann’s boffo Joe McCarthy impression on Hardball last Friday.

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