TIME 100 Includes Three Potential GOP Presidential Candidates

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But which three?

8:41 AM, May 4, 2011 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

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The 2011 TIME 100, Time magazine’s list of the 100 “most influential people in the world,” includes three — and only three — potential Republican presidential candidates. Which three? Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, and Michele Bachmann. Could Time, for all its weaknesses, have a better sense than the inside-the-Beltway crowd of which prospective candidates have the capacity to catch fire in the popular culture and gain favor with the wider citizenry?