What did Michele Bachmann predict about elections in December 2011?
Michele Bachmann, U.S. Representative (R-MN) and Republican presidential candidate ·
All I can tell you is what I'm seeing on the ground is remarkable and I think that I will be that nominee because the country needs a strong woman … that's why I will defeat him in 2012 and he will be a one-term president.
6th in Iowa (5%); quit next day
Bachmann said she would be the nominee and make Obama a one-term president. She finished sixth in Iowa with about 5% and quit, and Obama was re-elected.
Bachmann finished sixth in the January 3, 2012 Iowa caucuses with about 5 percent of the vote and suspended her campaign (NPR). Obama was re-elected in November 2012 with 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206 (FEC).
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- Interview with guest host Eric Bolling on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, from Winterset, Iowa, six days before the Iowa caucuses.