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Input: Photo: Win McNamee/2012 Getty Images 
  
 Amateur politician Jim Graves, the founder of a hotel chain, nearly beat Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann in last year's election because she is crazy. He vowed to try again in 2014, but then Bachmann said she will not run again, so neither will Graves because he is not crazy. "Basically, after all that's gone on, and with Michele Bachmann now stepping down, I've been talking to my friends and family and frankly, the feeling is, 'Mission Accomplished," the Democrat told MinnPost today. "She wasn't representing the people of the 6th District appropriately, and now she won't be representing them. There's no way anyone could run and win who would be worse than Michele Bachmann. So we accomplished that task." Sure, okay! 
  
 Graves lost the House seat to Bachmann by just 1.2 percentage points in a district that Mitt Romney won with 56 percent of the vote, or his best in the state. In other words, against a qualified and sane Republican, he has no chance: "Charlie Cook, who analyzes every congressional district based on multiple factors, rates the district 'R +10,' which means a generic Republican should start out with roughly a 10-percentage-point lead over a generic Democrat. That makes the 6th the most Republican-leaning district in Minnesota." 
  
 Graves said "his plan is to give no interviews for a month so the spotlight can shift to others who want to enter the race from which he is withdrawing." Is that a Bachmann un-retiring we smell? Maybe if she decides to run again, Graves will, too, and they can keep playing chicken until Election Day. ||||| MinnPost photo by Jana Freiband 
  
 As of today, Jim Graves is going to indefinitely suspend his campaign for Congress from the 6th District. 
  
 Translation: He is not running. He is dropping out of politics to concentrate on his family and his business. 
  
 Later this morning he will circulate a press release to this effect. But he says he will not take questions about it today, nor is he particularly interested in hearing from various Democrats who might want to talk him into changing his mind. In fact, his plan is to give no interviews for a month so the spotlight can shift to others who want to enter the race from which he is withdrawing. 
  
 Except one interview. Graves kindly reached out to me Thursday night to offer a brief interview and agreed that MinnPost could break the story this morning, a short time before his official statement is released. Here is what he told me: 
  
 ‘Mission Accomplished’ 
  
 “Basically, after all that’s gone on, and with Michele Bachmann now stepping down, I’ve been talking to my friends and family and frankly, the feeling is, ‘Mission Accomplished.’ She wasn’t representing the people of the 6th District appropriately, and now she won’t be representing them. There’s no way anyone could run and win who would be worse than Michele Bachmann. So we accomplished that task.” 
  
 I asked Graves if he was claiming credit for ending Bachmann’s political career, but he demurred. “I don’t know everything that went into her decision,” he said. “Clearly, it was going to be a competitive race. All through Memorial Day weekend, she was in the district, working the crowds. Obviously something happened to cause her to believe that she shouldn’t run again. We’re very happy she dropped out. The country can do better.” 
  
 As for his own future, he declined to make an absolute Shermanesque commitment never to run for office again, but he has no such plans. 
  
 “I’m not a politician; I’m a business guy,” he said. “Now there are zero things on my agenda that I feel a need to do in public life.” 
  
 Opposite of Bachmann’s approach 
  
 Graves said he entered his brief political fling hoping to emphasize three or four qualities and ideas that he felt were the opposite of Bachmann’s approach. Bachmann demonizes those with whom she disagrees. He believes in civility. Bachmann constantly misstates the facts. He believes in being careful and rigorous about the factual basis for the positions he advocates. Bachmann thrives on gridlock, believing that preventing the Democrats from accomplishing anything is goal enough. He believes in trying to find solutions to problems, even if you have to compromise with those advocating different solutions in order to make progress. 
  
 REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni 
  
 “I don’t think compromise is a dirty word,” Graves said. “It’s a great approach. You can never get a perfect deal.” 
  
 I asked Graves whether his decision was shaped by the emerging conventional wisdom that, while he had a fair shot at defeating Bachmann, he stood little chance against a less radical, divisive, fact-challenged Republican, because the 6th District has such a strong Republican lean. He didn’t exactly say yes or no. He emphasized that Amy Klobuchar has done very well in the district in both of her Senate races. She is a Democrat, but she offers a constructive approach. 
  
 He acknowledged that the national media, the national Democratic Party and the national liberal-donor base are going to be a lot less interested in who represents the 6th District of Minnesota now that Bachmann has removed herself. He said that the attention and support he received from far and wide was not about him. “I was just the guy who was running against her,” he said. “I’m humble enough to realize that.” 
  
 And now he isn’t running against her or anyone else. He is looking forward to life out of the limelight. |||||
Output:
Jim Graves apparently had a very specific political agenda: Defeat Michele Bachmann. The Democratic businessman came within a whisker of doing so in Minnesota last year, and now that Bachmann has announced she's not running for re-election to Congress, that would seem to be good news for Graves' political career, right? But Graves tells MinnPost in the wake of Bachmann's announcement that he's leaving politics. "I’ve been talking to my friends and family and frankly, the feeling is, ‘Mission Accomplished,'" he says. "She wasn’t representing the people of the 6th District appropriately, and now she won’t be representing them. There’s no way anyone could run and win who would be worse than Michele Bachmann. So we accomplished that task.” Daily Intel adds some context, noting that this is a heavily Republican district. "In other words, against a qualified and sane Republican, he has no chance."