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

Pete Buttigieg pulls ahead

November 19, 2019

The Most Trusted Name In Iowa Political Polling™, Ann Seltzer, dropped a new poll on Saturday that showed a completely different race from the one we saw just two months ago. This time, instead of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren in the lead, this poll finds the leader of a small provincial fiefdom South Bend, Indiana […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Soon to be former St. Paul Council-member Kassim Busuri

Chasing Those Precious Second Choice Votes Part 2

November 11, 2019

On Friday November 8th St. Paul conducted the reallocation of Ranked Choice Voting Votes for Wards 1 and 6. This was a big moment for the anonymous St. Paul “insider” we were introduced to in part one of this soon to be concluded series. Either the “insider” would be correct and Ward 6 Council-member Kassim […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Likely St. Paul Ward 6 winner Nelsie Yang

Chasing Those Precious Second Choice Votes

November 6, 2019

Appointed St. Paul Council-member Kassim Busuri appears to have lost his seat in yesterdays elections. I say appears because while he’s way, way behind, and has no realistic chance of victory, he’s not actually eliminated yet. He could still pull this thing out. If you read the mistake-prone half of the Morning Hot Take Dish […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Checking out some recent polling in Minnesota

October 16, 2019

Primarily in an effort to limit the quantity of “bad” stress in my life, I’m not the polls junkie I used to be. That said, Public Policy Polling recently polled our state (commissioned by Alliance for a Better Minnesota), and I got to pondering. It’s easy to react with something like “44% job approval seems […]

by Dan Burns

MN-01: Dan Feehan is going to kick butt

October 3, 2019

It was Feehan vs. Hagedorn in 2018. The latter is now Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), but not by much. Feehan has announced a rematch. My intent is not to dismiss any other DFLers who may get in, but I think it’s a pretty safe bet that it will be Feehan on the ballot, again. And […]

by Dan Burns

MN-Sen: Is Jason Lewis Trump-level crazy?

September 26, 2019

Jason Lewis was in the U.S. House, for one term. He’s running for the U.S. Senate, in Minnesota. Jason Lewis, a Republican running for US Senate in Minnesota, once said Republicans had “dual loyalties” to Israel, adding that support for the country was the result of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and a “very […]

by Dan Burns

Elizabeth Warren pulls ahead

September 24, 2019

According to a poll released on Saturday by the most trusted name in Iowa political polling, Ann Seltzer, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has pulled into the lead over former Vice President Joe Biden. Selzer & Co. (9/21, 6/8 in parenthesis): Joe Biden 20 (24) Bernie Sanders 11 (16) Elizabeth Warren 22 (15) Pete Buttigieg 9 […]

by Tony Petrangelo

hPVI 2019, House edition

September 16, 2019

Partisan scores for Minnesota House districts

by Tony Petrangelo

Another Minnesota GOP savior

September 11, 2019

Though I don’t blame you if you’ve put it out of your mind, Tim Pawlenty was governor of Minnesota for eight years, beginning in January 2003. He was the worst governor in modern Minnesota history. But, oh, did Minnesota’s corporate “news” media love him, among other things because he supposedly had everything it took for […]

by Dan Burns