The bubble effect made its first famous appearance 1972, via Pauline Kael of the New York Times. While bubble effect is seen somewhat more on the right these days, it first showed up with a liberal lament: “I can’t believe Nixon won! No one I know voted for him.”

One gets that feeling that if Michelle Bachmann were to run for president, many wingnuts would have similar feelings when she lost. As for me, I said back in 2011 that I could never vote for her for president, and that remains my position.