The Weekly Wrap 1-12

January 12, 2014

It’s that time when politicians running for office release their fundraising numbers, so that will be the majority of what appears in The Wrap™ this week. ♣ First up, State Senator Dave Thompson: State Sen. Dave Thompson of Lakeville, one of six Republican candidates for governor, said his campaign raised more than $120,000 last year […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 11-23

November 23, 2013

♣ The Minnesota Jobs Coalition, the intrepid dark money group started by friend of the now-defunct LeftMN Radio Hour, Ben Golnik, released a polling memo, let’s take a look: Tarrance Group (11/21, no trend lines): Do you think Minnesota’s U.S. Senator Al Franken has done a good enough job to deserve re-election, or is it […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 11-9

November 9, 2013

It’s been a few weeks since I did The Wrap™, having been distracted by new polls the last two weeks. But The Wrap™ returns, to do it’s Wrapy thing once again and all of Minnesota Politicoland rejoices. ♣ First off, the unofficial election results from the elections on Tuesday in Minneapolis that had to go […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Mark Dayton’s standing improves

November 2, 2013

PPP’s most recent poll shows some improvement for Governor Mark Dayton

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 8-24

August 24, 2013

The link to the image above came from Joe in the comments. Steve wrote a series of posts a couple weeks back about Twila’s latest episode of windmail tilting. In those posts a billboard sporting the above stockphoto featured prominently. Another reminder that in a capitalist society, everything is for sale, even angst. “Wait a […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Minnesota Senate hPVI, 2013 edition

July 8, 2013

This post continues a series of posts concerning hPVI. The first phase of said series of posts involves the introduction of brand spanking new 2013 hPVIs. The first phase is the phase in which we currently find ourselves. All of this implies that this series will go through multiple phases. This part of the first […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 6-29

June 29, 2013

♣ In news neither shocking or new at this point, Kurt Zellers last Sunday announced that he will in fact be running for Governor of Minnesota. This brings the total number of white male Republican candidates for Governor to three. ♣ Also not shocking but a little bit more new: Senator Dave Thompson also announced he […]

by Tony Petrangelo