In the process, with a little help from redistricting, he has turned a reliable Republican seat into one that favors Democrats.
Holt, 58, did the right thing on the highly charged Terri Schiavo issue, going to the House floor to vehemently oppose the circuslike involvement of federal officials in what was a tragic personal issue.
The YouTube generation has seen her proclaiming widespread scientific support for the intelligent design concept of life's origins, equally widespread doubts about whether global warming is a reality and saying that Terri Schiavo, the comatose Florida woman whose end-of-life treatment triggered federal intervention in 2005, was "healthy" and "not terminally ill.''
Those have become talking points among moral crusaders. But Bachmann pushes her faith-based politics well past that. In testimony to a Brooklyn Park church congregation this month — also available on YouTube — she spoke of how the Almighty called her to run for the state Senate and the U.S. Congress, and how she followed her husband's career advice because "the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives — you are to be submissive to your husbands.' "
In the 6th District, Wetterling
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