Minnesota Senate District 11 Bonus Election Preview

January 9, 2019

On Thursday January 3rd Governor-elect Tim Walz announced the appointment of now former State Senator Tony Lourey as the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Within 24-hours five candidates had jumped into the race to succeed him in the State Senate with another two joining the following week. Of the seven, two are […]

by Tony Petrangelo

2018 Minnesota Election Round-up

December 3, 2018

Observations concerning the recent election

by Tony Petrangelo

DFL probably would have won the Minnesota Senate this year too

November 20, 2018

But it would have been close

by Tony Petrangelo

How the new DFL House majority compares to the old DFL House majority

November 15, 2018

The 2018 election represents the second time the DFL has won the State House majority under the district maps implemented in 2012. The path to a DFL majority in 2018 was quite a bit different than the path in 2012 however and the differences in the two elections underline what has become the most obvious recent trend in […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Redistricting reform should be at the top of the agenda

November 13, 2018

The DFL should create an independent redistricting commission even though they stand to possibly achieve the trifecta

by Tony Petrangelo

Minnesota Senate District 62 Convention: Retirements, Credentials, Walkouts and Quorums

March 14, 2018

As you may have heard, the Minnesota Senate District 62 Convention, which took place on Saturday March 10th, had some – let’s say – difficulties. The results of these difficulties were that the A side of the district didn’t endorse a candidate for an open House seat, and for that matter, never even completed a […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Bonus Election Preview

February 12, 2018

Bonus Elections in Minnesota today!

by Tony Petrangelo

Appointed Senators are actually good at re-election

December 11, 2017

In which the author takes down a Twitter hot taker

by Tony Petrangelo

hPVI 2017, House edition

December 5, 2017

Partisan scores for Minnesota House districts

by Tony Petrangelo

hPVI 2017, Senate edition

December 4, 2017

Partisan scores for Minnesota Senate districts

by Tony Petrangelo

hPVI 2017 Explainer

December 4, 2017

A primer for the fifth edition of hPVI, Minnesota’s most beloved Legislative district metric

by Tony Petrangelo

How Donald Trump almost won Minnesota

November 30, 2016

Donald Trump came as close to winning Minnesota as any Republican since Ronald Reagan, is a sentence I never expected I would write, but here we are. Donald Trump lost Minnesota by 1.5%, the closest margin in a Presidential race in the state since Walter Mondale beat Reagan by less than a quarter of a percent […]

by Tony Petrangelo