The Minnesota congresswoman was one of the Tea Party's earliest major figures, at one point a front-runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, and a leader in the conservative fight against Obamacare-yet she was unable to achieve a leadership role in national politics during her four-term tenure in Congress.
Michele Bachmann's Missed Chances
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