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Rep. Michele Bachmann, (R) Minnesota, joined by husband Marcus, left, family and friends, announces that she will end her campaign for president Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Chris Carlson/AP
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota, speaks to supporters and media during a campaign stop, Monday in West Des Moines, Iowa. Eric Gay/AP
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota addresses her supporters at her caucus party at the Marriott in West Des Moines after finishing sixth in the Iowa Caucuses Jan. 3, 2012. Justin Hayworth/The Des Moines Register/AP
Bachmann speaks to the caucus at the UNI Dome at the University of Northern Iowa with her mother Jean (r.) at her side on Caucus night in the UNI Dome on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, January 3, 2012. Jeff Haynes /Reuters
Bachmann (r.) with her mother Jean (c.) and father Ray (l.) walk past caucus-goers on Caucus night in the UNI Dome on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, January 3, 2012. Jeff Haynes /Reuters
Bachmann speaks with supporters at The Ivy Bake Shoppe, December 21, 2011 in Fort Madison, Iowa. She was on a 99-county bus tour of Iowa. Brenna Norman/The Hawk Eye/AP
Irene Smith, from Montrose, Iowa, leans in to speak with candidate Bachmann at The Ivy Bake Shoppe, December 21, 2011 in Fort Madison, Iowa. The candidate was on a 99-county bus tour of Iowa. Brenna Norman/The Hawk Eye/AP
Bachmann has her hair tended to in a commercial break during her appearance on the Republican Presidential Forum on "Huckabee," the Fox News program hosted by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Dec. 3, 2011 in New York. Henny Ray Abrams/AP
Bachmann reacts during the book-signing event for her book "Core of Conviction" Dec. 3, 2011, in Aiken, S.C. Rainier Ehrhardt/AP
Candidate Bachmann and Congressman Joe Wilson wave during a Veterans Day parade in Columbia, S.C., Nov. 11, 2011. Fellow Republican candidate Rick Perry also marched in the parade. Tim Dominick//The State/AP
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota waves to the crowd while her husband, Marcus (l.), applauds during a rally to officially announce her intent to seek the Republican presidential nomination in Waterloo, Iowa, June 27. Charlie Riedel/AP
Bachmann waves during a welcome home event in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, June 26, 2011. Charlie Riedel/AP
Bachmann speaks on CBS's 'Face the Nation' in Washington on June 26. The candiddate told CBS that she is gratified by the Iowa Poll released Saturday that showed she was in a statistical tie with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for first place among likely Iowa caucus-goers. Chris Usher/CBS/AP
Bachmann speaks during the first 2012 Republican presidential candidates' debate in Manchester, N.H., on June 13, 2011 where she first announced her candidacy for President of the United States. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota speaks during a Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 31, 2011. Olivier Douliery/ABACAUSA.com/Newscom/File
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota greets Bob Goldstein (l.) and Barry Gold in Jupiter, Fla., on March 4, 2011. Zuma Press/Newscom/File
Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota (r.) and former vice presidential nominee and Alaska governor Sarah Palin wave to the audience during a rally at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis on April 7, 2010. Jerry Holt/Zuma Press/Newscom/File
Then-Minnesota state Sen. Michele Bachmann addresses the judiciary committee about a constitutional amendment that she authored to recognize marriage as a union between one man and one woman in Minneapolis on May 10, 2006. Kyndell Harkness/Zuma Press/Newscom/File
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota speaks about the recent tour taken by House Republicans of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and Alaska's Prudhoe Bay and Arctic coastal plain, in Washington on July 22, 2008. Jack Hohman/UPI/Newscom/File
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota (c.) attends President Barack Obama's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington on Jan. 25. Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom/File
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota thanks her supporters during her victory speech in Minneapolis after she was reelected on Nov. 2, 2010. Jeff Wheeler/Zuma Press/Newscom/File
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota gestures during her remarks, with her husband Marcus Bachmann at her left, after she declared victory in Minnesota's sixth Congressional district in Bloomington, Minn., in 2006. Ms. Bachmann is the first Republican woman to represent Minnesota in Congress. Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Zuma Press/Newscom/File
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota and her husband Marcus Bachmann attend the Time 100 Gala at Lincoln Center in New York on April 26. Zuma Press/Newscom/File
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Michele Bachmann is heading back to Minnesota after a disastrous finish in the Iowa caucuses. Among other reasons for her demise, Ms. Bachmann failed to gain traction with Republican women voters.
What happened to Michele Bachmann? Not too long ago – OK, last August – she was a hot item in GOP politics. She won the Ames, Iowa, straw poll that month, and was on every big Sunday talk show in the nation days later.
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