MN-01: Rep. Hagedorn sticks to Trump like a limpet

October 22, 2020

Regarding Rep. Hagedorn’s recent scandals, I don’t personally care about the Grand Canyon thing. Lots of people, from all walks of life, are always trying to score perks like that. It would be good if all of our elected lawmakers held themselves to higher standards, but, throughout the entire world history of politics, yeah, right. […]

by Dan Burns

Minnesota judicial elections 2020

October 19, 2020

I’m getting my information from the Secretary of State website. Here is a map of Minnesota’s judicial districts. I’m not going to type much about this cycle’s Supreme Court challenge. If you’re even an occasional reader of this website, you’re undoubtedly intelligent and informed enough to know that Michelle MacDonald’s head ain’t right. I will […]

by Dan Burns

MN lege: Loving these DFL pickup opportunities, Part 4

October 10, 2020

Districts 40-67

by Dan Burns

MN-08: Ditching Rep. Stauber, Part 2

October 4, 2020

Does he not know what COVID-19 exposure means?

by Dan Burns

MN lege: Loving these DFL pickup opportunities, Part 3

October 3, 2020

Districts 29-39

by Dan Burns

MN lege: Loving these DFL pickup opportunities, Part 2

September 29, 2020

Districts 22-28

by Dan Burns

MN lege: Loving these DFL pickup opportunities, Part 1

September 21, 2020

Districts 1-21

by Dan Burns

MN-01: Rep. Hagedorn’s history of deranged, bigoted nonsense is not just history

July 27, 2020

Recent stuff: In a Facebook post published on June 23, Congressman Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) used white nationalist rhetoric to condemn the Black Lives Matter movement. Hagedorn wrote that the Black Lives Matter movement is “at war with our country, our beliefs and western culture.” He insisted that Americans must oppose the Black Lives Matter movement […]

by Dan Burns

MN-08: Ditching Rep. Stauber, Part 1

July 18, 2020

I live in MN-08, though so close to its south boundary that if I was literally less than a half-mile south of where I’m sitting at my desk right now I’d be in MN-06. Which would in a way make this easier, because Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN-06) is, given his obnoxious, arrogant demeanor, and the […]

by Dan Burns

Winning MN-08

July 9, 2020

Quinn Nystrom will be the DFL candidate for the U.S. House, from Minnesota Congressional District 8. Here’s her website. Some background, for non-Minnesota politics junkies. For a long, long time MN-08 was considered deep blue. It was represented for decades by the late James Oberstar, who rarely if ever had much trouble getting reelected…until the […]

by Dan Burns

I’ll be voting for Sanders on Super Tuesday

February 23, 2020

With comments.

by Dan Burns

House district 5A representative John Persell

Who are the most vulnerable members of the Minnesota House of Representatives?

December 9, 2019

For a number of years DailyKos Elections has computed the House Vulnerability Index (HVI), a metric that endeavors to rank current members of the US House of Representatives according to how vulnerable they are in the next election. The way the index works is fairly simple, all the Democrats (and Republicans) are ordered and ranked […]

by Tony Petrangelo