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

How do you drown-proof a mine? Part 3, a reprise

September 21, 2019

The denouement – and a prediction comes true

by Steve Timmer

How do you drown-proof a mine? Part 2, a reprise

September 21, 2019

It’s still the question on everyone’s lips

by Steve Timmer

How do you drown-proof a mine? A reprise

September 21, 2019

It’s the question on everyone’s lips

by Steve Timmer

Follow the money

September 19, 2019

The rep from mining

by Steve Timmer

Never mind Denmark, there’s something rotten in Minnesota

September 16, 2019

Revelation after revelation

by Steve Timmer

hPVI 2019, House edition

September 16, 2019

Partisan scores for Minnesota House districts

by Tony Petrangelo

Why would I call Sen. Smith about “government rate-setting?”

September 13, 2019

You may well have seen at least one of the mildly apocalyptic commercials about “government rate-setting.” The one I embedded here from YouTube is presumably being run in Georgia. But here it’s the same, except for suggesting at the end that you help ring Sen. Tina Smith’s (D-MN) phones off the hook. This is from […]

by Dan Burns

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

hPVI 2019, Senate edition

September 9, 2019

Partisan scores for Minnesota Senate districts

by Tony Petrangelo

Minnesota corporate media’s infuriating Omar/Trump double standard

August 28, 2019

Let’s review. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was born in Somalia and spent years with her family in a refugee camp. Since coming to the U.S. she has, by dint of intelligence, hard work, and just fundamental excellence as a human being made her way to the U.S. Congress, where she has immediately begun to make […]

by Dan Burns

Push Poll!

August 26, 2019

While pursuing the website twitter dot com over the weekend I was presented with the following tweet: I just got called by a pretty nasty push poll about the 5th Congressional district by someone identifying themselves as VRI Research. — Steve Fletcher (@FletcherMpls) August 24, 2019 Apparently Minneapolis Ward 3 Council member Steve Fletcher was […]

by Tony Petrangelo