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As caucus approaches, Bachmann looks to sell Iowans on faith, frugality

By Anja Sivertson | 05.13.11 | 10:59 am

While Michele Bachmann’s family and supporters see a good-hearted but penny-wise Christian mother who worked with disabled kids and took in bulimic and anorexic foster children, her opponents see a bare-knuckles campaigner with far-right views and a penchant for hyperbole and misstating facts in attacking opponents.