{"id":10134,"date":"2011-06-16T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10134"},"modified":"2011-06-16T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:38:15","slug":"a-very-good-start-for-michele-bachmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10134\/a-very-good-start-for-michele-bachmann\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Good Start for Michele Bachmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hats off to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) for putting together a string of impressive wins in her just-begun presidential campaign.\u00a0 Hiring veteran campaign consultant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-504564_162-20069373-504564.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Rollins<\/a> elevated her profile with the Beltway set, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/on-air\/hannity\/2011\/06\/16\/michele-bachmann-jumps-2012-white-house-race\" target=\"_blank\">announcing her candidacy live<\/a> at Monday\u2019s debate was the perfect complement to her strong performance.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Bachmann\u2019s campaign announced that <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/16\/bachmann-said-to-have-deal-for-memoir\/ \" target=\"_blank\">John Fund will be assisting with her biography<\/a> set to be released in the fall.\u00a0 Fund\u2019s attachment to the project means that the book has substance, and with his addition it is guaranteed to have style.<\/p>\n<p>One more bright spot for Team Bachmann: A new <em>Rasmussen<\/em> poll finds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/InsideCover\/RasmussenReports-MicheleBachmann-MittRomney-HermanCain\/2011\/06\/16\/id\/400311\" target=\"_blank\">her approval ratings<\/a> second only to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>And she\u2019s only been a candidate for four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hats off to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) for putting together a string of impressive wins in her just-begun presidential campaign.\u00a0 Hiring veteran campaign consultant Ed Rollins elevated her profile with the Beltway set, and announcing her candidacy live at Monday\u2019s debate was the perfect complement to her strong performance. Today, Bachmann\u2019s campaign announced that Wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2398,1972,2789,1530,2066,160],"class_list":["post-10134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-campaign","tag-debate","tag-ed-rollins","tag-john-fund","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10140,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions\/10140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}