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Authentic? Get Real

Bennett Raglin/Getty Images (Anderson Cooper); Jim Cole, via Associated Press (Jon M. Huntsman Jr.); Mark Wilson, via Getty Images (Hillary Rodham Clinton); Heidi Gutman, via ABC (Katie Couric); Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times (Michele Bachmann).

From left: Anderson Cooper, Jon M. Huntsman Jr.,  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Katie Couric  and Michele Bachmann.

By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM

Published: September 9, 2011

“I THINK what people see in me is that I’m a real person,” Representative Michele Bachmann told ABC News, after her victory in Iowa last month. “I’m authentic.”

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