Bachmann’s campaign undergoes major shakeup

Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign saw a major shakeup on Monday as her campaign manager and deputy campaign manager quit. Ed Rollins, who said he was leaving the campaign for health reasons, and David Polyansky both wished the campaign well in several media appearances Monday evening. The shakeup comes at an unfortunate time for Bachmann, whose campaign has been pushed to the middle of the Republican pack by Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s recent announcement of a run for the nation’s highest office.

Pawlenty and Bachmann rumble

The struggling Pawlenty campaign achieved a victory of sorts: It got the Bachmann campaign to hit back.

Bachmann picks Rollins to head campaign

Rep. Michele Bachmann has selected high-profile political strategist Ed Rollins to run her presidential campaign, two sources close to Bachmann told CBS.

Red Lake has a knack for mattering in recount-tight races

Braublog notes that the purgers at President Bush’s U.S. Department of Justice may have been onto something when they targeted former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger for working to advance voting rights for Native Americans; turnout continues to…

Video: Would a bin Laden tape — or a lawsuit against Franken — help the GOP next Tuesday?

Yesterday CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked GOP strategist Ed Rollins if a Hail Mary pass from Osama bin Laden might save John McCain’s electoral prospects. He cited the 2004 election, when a new video by the al-Qaeda…

Rollins, ‘not bitter,’ clings to idea that votes of Minnesota’s ‘dead Indians’ denied Reagan ’84 sweep

On CNN’s “American Morning” show today, at the end of a segment titled “America Divided” — about controversial comments such as those made last week by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann — anchor John Roberts asked commentator Ed Rollins, who managed Ronald Reagan’s 1984 presidential re-election campaign, “How did you screw up Minnesota?” (Minnesota was the only state Democratic challenger Walter Mondale won.) Rollins’ reply: “They voted a lot of dead Indians along the border. 1620 votes, I’m not bitter.”

Rollins’ use of the phrase “dead Indians” is disturbing — especially coming at the end of a segment that began with Bachmann’s labeling as “anti-American” the country’s first major-party African-American presidential nominee. By the most charitable interpretation, Rollins seemed to be saying that Native Americans in northern Minnesota who were ineligible to vote (or even actually deceased?) had thrown the election and denied Reagan a 50-state sweep.