Mark Dayton’s standing improves

November 2, 2013

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

Second poll in less than a week shows John Kline in trouble

October 30, 2013

Last week I covered a PPP poll sponsored by The House Majority PAC which showed John Kline trailing his 2012 opponent, DFLer Mike Obermueller, 42-38. That poll was what you might call a “shock poll.” A poll with numbers so different from anything seen before that it shocks the senses. But shock polls can sometimes […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Ranked Choice Voting Question Time: Getting to the Heart of the Matter

October 28, 2013

This post is a continuation of my very topical series on Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). A series that began with a post tiled, “Ask Me Anything: Ranked Choice Voting,” where I pleaded with readers to ask me questions about Ranked Choice Voting so that I could turn around and use those questions to create hot […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Big Trouble in the Second Congressional District for John Kline

October 26, 2013

That’s according to a recent poll released by The House Majority PAC and conducted by Public Policy Polling. PPP (10/24, no trend lines): John Kline (R-inc) 38 Mike Obermueller (D) 42 Not sure 20 (MoE: ±3.4%) While PPP has been doing a bunch of generic ballot testing with Republican house members around the country and […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Ranked Choice Voting Question Time: 35 Candidates and Vote Ranking

October 22, 2013

This post is part of an ongoing series of posts in which I attempt, however feebly, to answer questions about this newfangled (not really) thing called Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), or Instant-Runoff Voting, or as one candidate for Minneapolis Mayor pleads in his party affiliation “Count All Rankings.” The first post of the series concerned […]

by Tony Petrangelo

More Ranked Choice Voting Responses

October 21, 2013

I will be moving on to other aspects of Ranked Choice Voting, seriously. But before that I’m going to post a couple more comments on the issue of majority winners. If you’re just tuning in, my first post on the issue was “Ranked Choice Voting Question Time: Majority Winner,” and the first comment I’m posting […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 10-19

October 19, 2013

♣ Third quarter fundraising numbers are in, but the FEC’s website is still screwed up from the shutdown, so I’m going to crib this info from DailyKos Elections (all monies in thousands of dollars): CD Name Party Raised Self Fund Self Loan Spent CTD CoH MN-02 Mike Obermueller (D) $73 $0 $0 $46 $204 $119 […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Responses to selected feedback on my last Ranked Choice Voting post

October 16, 2013

I got a few responses to my previous post on Ranked Choice Voting that deserve to be addressed, so that’s what I’ll do. Starting with: The author here has a few misunderstandings of the process. The Minneapolis rules provide for batch elimination for all the candidates that cannot mathematically win. This will weed out the […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Ranked Choice Voting Question Time: Majority Winner

October 14, 2013

Last week, in a post titled Ask Me Anything: Ranked Choice Voting, I invited readers to ask me questions about Ranked Choice Voting, the system of voting being used in Minneapolis and St. Paul this year. And if you haven’t guessed it yet, this post is where I start answering those questions. This is not […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Do you like congress or Nickelback better?

The Weekly Wrap 10-12

October 12, 2013

♣ On Monday I posted “Ask Me Anything: Ranked Choice Voting,” in which I invited readers, such as yourself, to ask me any questions they may have about Ranked Choice Voting. Next week I will start answering those questions. It’s not too late to get your question in. ♣ ICYMI, Minnesota’s Sally Jo Sorensen got […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Ask Me Anything: Ranked Choice Voting

October 7, 2013

It’s an election year this year! In the City of Minneapolis that is. St. Paul too, and a few other places, but Minneapolis is where all the serious action is. This is the cities second year with the new Ranked Choice Voting system that was approved by Minneapolis voters in 2006. Despite this being the […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 10-5

October 5, 2013

Not much happened this week as far as The Wrap™ is concerned (being the persnickety beast that it is, The Wrap™ deals only with, or mostly with, elections news and not process and policy, or lack of process and policy, news) as all of the oxygen in the world of politics is being sucked up […]

by Tony Petrangelo