Joe Mauer at All Star Game

The Weekly Wrap 7-15

July 15, 2012

The fundraising reports start coming in for the second quarter, which has nothing to do with the above picture of Joe Mauer

Welcome to Woodbury

Better Know a Senate District: 53

July 9, 2012

Senate district 53 could decide control of the Senate

John Roberts smile

The Weekly Wrap 7-1

July 1, 2012

Former Conservative Heartthrob John Roberts stabbed all conservatives in the back. With a rusty spoon

Minnesota State Capitol

Minnesota House hPVI

June 28, 2012

Another round of my totally proprietary and not at all derivative legislative district partisan index

Michele Bachmann's mean face

Michele Bachmann under 50, Jim Graves 5 points back

June 27, 2012

OMG! Michele is under 50%!! She is definitely going to lose this time… right?

Welcome to Shoreview

Better Know a Senate District: 42

June 26, 2012

Senate District 42 is an open seat bonanza

Taste of MN Official Cake 1983

The Weekly Wrap 6-24

June 24, 2012

This week we announced “Thanks, General Mills!” And other stuff happened as well

Our Vote Our Future

Money raised in support of and opposition to the two constitutional amendments

June 21, 2012

The fundraising reports for all the groups raising and spending money for and against the two constitutional amendments were due on the 19th and the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board made them available yesterday morning. This post is a brief overview of what was in those reports. There were no fewer than eight groups […]

Numbers

hPVI, and what it says about the Senate

June 20, 2012

This was in response to my posting of the Minnesota Senate hPVI numbers yesterday: This shows GOP keeping MN Sen RT @eric_pusey: Check this out! RT @tonyangelo: Minnesota Senate hPVI ow.ly/1kGFkC #stribpol #mnleg — Bill Walsh (@billtwalsh) June 19, 2012 The short response (it’s twitter, there are no other kinds of responses I suppose) that […]

Minnesota State Capitol

Minnesota Senate hPVI

June 19, 2012

My totally proprietary and not at all derivative legislative district partisan index

Winona boathouses

Better Know a Senate District: 28

June 18, 2012

District 28 presents the DFL with two viable pickup opportunities

Riley Thomas

The Weekly Wrap 6-16

June 16, 2012

♣ ICYMI, back at the end of May a video appeared that had some people asking… “Who the hell made that?” Now, as the script reads, members of the coalition supporting the anti-family amendment are using said video to raise money. I suppose the next step is to hire people dressed as teh gays to beat up […]