Michele Bachmann may find it hard to explain away all the investigations she's under.

Michele Bachmann may find it hard to explain away all the investigations she's under.

[...] raises the possibility that there were potential criminal violations. In addition to the alleged theft of the home-school list, the FBI is said to be looking into the campaign's demand that certain former employees, whose pay was withheld at the end of the campaign, sign non-disclosure agreements before receiving their compensation.

Add the FBI to the list of agencies investigating alleged unethical or illegal actions by Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign. The Office of Congressional Ethics, the Federal Elections Commission, and an Iowa state Senate ethics committee were already on the case, looking into questionable payments to an Iowa state senator, the theft of a home-schooling group's email list, using money from her PAC to fund her presidential campaign, and more. The FBI's involvement Bachmann won only narrowly in 2012, despite her district's strong performance for Mitt Romney. Now, Public Policy Polling finds her trailing Democratic challenger Jim Graves by two points in a poll commissioned by Graves; Bachmann's favorables were also in negative territory. And that poll was done when Bachmann was only ("only") under investigation by the FEC, the Office of Congressional Ethics, and the Iowa state Senate. Sure, being under FBI investigation may make some conspiracy theorists see her as a victim of government oppression, but let's face it, those are the people who will still be supporting Bachmann if she ends up in jail as a result of these investigations. Swing voters may be less enthralled by having a representative whose ethical problems they can't even keep track of.