Sample Ranked-Choice Voting Ballot

Gary Schiff learns about Ranked-Choice Voting

June 27, 2013

Gary Schiff was the first DFLer to drop out of the Minneapolis Mayoral race, citing the lack of a path to victory in the aftermath of the Minneapolis DFL convention. He gave an interview to MinnPost after withdrawing from the race and shared some thoughts on his now defunct campaign for Mayor. In the course […]

Al Franken

Al Franken maintains strong approvals

June 24, 2013

While they are not quite Klobacharian, Al Franken continues to sport enviable approval numbers with Minnesota voters. Mason-Dixon (6/18, 9/23/12 in parenthesis): Do you approve or disapprove of Al Franken’s job performance as U.S. Senator? Approve 55 (52) Disapprove 29 (40) Undecided 16 (8) (MoE: ±3.5%) The numbers in the parenthesis above, the numbers from September, are not the numbers cited […]

Zellers as Deer in headlights

The Weekly Wrap 6-22

June 22, 2013

Zellers to announce, Abeler, Benson, Hilstrom get in and Schiff gets out

Gov. Mark Dayton

Mark Dayton rebounds

June 19, 2013

With the legislative session over, things get back to normal

Tony Petrangelo at Drinking Liberally

The Weekly Wrap 6-15

June 15, 2013

More Republicans, and even some Democrats, pile into MN-6

Mark Ritchie

The Weekly Wrap 6-8

June 8, 2013

Candidates get into the Sixth district race, and a statewide seat opens up

Numbers

A Brief History of Ideology in the Minnesota Legislature

June 6, 2013

Last week I took a look at a new metric that attempts to measure the relative Ideology of state Legislatures and Legislators. Called “np_score” and developed by Boris Shor and Nolan McCarty (their website is at Measuring American Legislatures) the metric ranges from roughly -2 (very liberal) to +2 (very conservative). This metric is derived […]

Jim Graves

The Weekly Wrap 6-1

June 1, 2013

Michele Bachmann announces her retirement and GOPers run one way, DFLers run the other

Numbers

Ideology Scores for State Legislatures

May 29, 2013

In which I discover some new numbers to geek-out about

Michele Bachmann preaches

Bachmann Out

May 29, 2013

Michele Bachmann announced she will not run for re-election to congress in 2014

Capitol steps

The Weekly Wrap 5-25

May 25, 2013

♣ Almost immediately after announcing his support for the now passed into law Marriage equality bill, Joe Radinovich, a DFL Representative from Crosby, faced the threat of a recall. Earlier this week Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lori Gildea ruled, “not so much.” Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Lori Gildea has ruled that Reps. Joe Radinovich, DFL-Crosby, and John Ward, […]

Gov. Mark Dayton

Mark Dayton slides

May 24, 2013

His approvals are down, but he maintains healthy leads on a number of possible opponents