The Independent
TV debate to star Tea Party's other woman
By Stephen Foley in NewYork
After months spent buttering up activists in primary states, and hitting the political g-spots of conservative fundraisers, the self-declared leader of the Congressional Tea party movement is about to make her debut in a national debate, in a bid to upset the Republican race and position herself as the person best able to unseat President Barack Obama next year.
The woman is not Sarah Palin, but rather Michele Bachmann, a third-term congresswoman from Minnesota, who will square off against front-runner Mitt Romney and others in the first major Republican debate of the election season on US television this evening.
While Mr Romney remains comfortably ahead in the polls, and even scores level pegging in a theoretical match-up with President Obama, and Ms Palin continues her will-she-won't-she tease, sitting out the debate, it's Ms Bachmann who is the star turn in tonight's CNN debate in New Hampshire.
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