Click on this link to read a Slate (7-10-11) copy of the election pledge signed by Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachman. The entire pledge text is included. Besides the content of the pledge, the language of which is highly provocative, there is the question of why candidates are being urged (by political advocacy groups) to sign such pledges. The practice began in the 1990s with Newt Gingrich's "contract with America" but has proliferated in recent years. Are such "litmus test" documents a way to achieve clarity about candidates' positions, or do they have the effect of boxing candidates into narrow ideological positions?
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