http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/us/politics/04bachmann.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

"Ms. Bachmann, who moved to Minnesota as a teenager, eagerly recounted how her Norwegian ancestors settled near Waterloo, Iowa. And she confides that she was raised a Democrat — she and her husband, Marcus, worked for Jimmy Carter’s 1976 campaign — but she had an awakening reading a Gore Vidal book that she found to be “'mocking our founding fathers.'”