BYRON YORK: Bachmann’s Political Touch Turns Doubter Into Fan. “Anyone who doubts Michele Bachmann’s talents as a hands-on politician didn’t see her performance here Monday. In an otherwise unremarkable town hall meeting, Bachmann turned a potentially embarrassing encounter with a grouchy voter into an opportunity to win the most treasured political commodity in Iowa these days: a vote in Saturday’s Republican straw poll.”

You can’t win the White House with hands-on skills. But you can win Iowa. And New Hampshire.