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Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann was handed an opportunity to take a similar path on Saturday when CBS Political Director John Dickerson accidentally copied a Bachmann aide on an email saying that the candidate was largely irrelevant and would not be asked many questions in the debate.
The Bachmann campaign called on Dickerson to be fired and accused the network of sidelining a candidate based on her diminished standing in the polls.
Bachmann's campaign manager stormed through the post-debate spin room and called Dickerson a "piece of sh-t" and a "fraud." Dickerson's response: "Bachmann is at 4% in the polls and has been for a while. Other candidates aren't. I sent an email based on that."
That is how it works, people watching the debates are more interested in what the front runners have to say.
Eh, that's standard. Same thing happens in Democrat pre-primary seasons when the field is so large before the primaries. Its all about the money folks. Contributions.
As much as I don't care for Bachmann, she's right. It's like the NCAA puts out a pre-season BCS standing, and then only plays the top 2 teams, doesn't like the 3rd team so it skips them as much as possible, plays the 4th team, and lets the rest have the scraps for playing time.
Bachmann is having difficulty dealing with her irrelevancy. Ron Paul deals with it a little better, but then, he has more experience in doing that.
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