Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann to run for President?


Why not – the more the merrier.

ABC News has learned that Bachmann, R-Minn., also is seriously weighing whether to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.

A source close to the three-term congresswoman said Bachmann will travel to Iowa this month for multiple meetings to seek advice from political forces there and party elders close to the caucus process before coming to a final decision regarding a potential presidential run. Bachmann, a native of Waterloo, Iowa, also is set to deliver a keynote speech at an Iowans for Tax Relief PAC fundraiser Jan. 21 in Des Moines, Iowa.

A few speeches or a few trips to Iowa do not a Presidential candidate make – at least in 2012.

But, Bachmann is a prolific fundraiser and her attendance in Iowa will raise the requisite eyebrows for the future.