Until then, Labour's forerunner, the Labour Representation Committee, had the greatest difficulty finding working-class candidates able to afford to stand for election.
Bachmann is also fighting the troubling storyline, already gaining traction within the Iowa political class, that she has difficulty functioning outside a tightly controlled bubble of advisers and aggressive security personnel.
Though jazz piano has had legions of practitioners, the number of first-class jazz singers is small, due to the difficulty of turning melody and lyrics into true improvisation.