Therapeutic Nazi hunting, part two

November 22, 2013

Bounty hunting, Northern Alliance style

One of these two persons

November 21, 2013

Will be the next Minnesota Secretary of State

Betsy Hodges

Fun with Graphs: 2013 Minneapolis election

November 21, 2013

Graphs concerning the results of the elections We begin with some graphs concerning the actual results of the actual elections. First up, a graph of the top Mayoral vote getters number of 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice votes. And a line graph of just the top three by round. Both of these graphs show, to […]

Therapeutic Nazi hunting, part one

November 20, 2013

Ivan the Supine: a reprise

Scribners 1880 Popular Vote

The Weekly Wrap 11-17

November 17, 2013

♣ The big story that dropped in last Sunday’s edition of the StarTribune was that the electronic campaign finance records curated by the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board were riddled with errors: About 7,000 records of donations between Minnesota groups are incorrect — an error rate of about one in seven. Electronic records […]

The Revolution will not be televised

November 16, 2013

Or perhaps even noticed

Playing the blame game in education

November 12, 2013

Scapegoating teachers

Woytanowitz wins Spotty!

November 11, 2013

The music will soar!

Who’s the bigger data fool?

November 10, 2013

Robert McNamara or Arne Duncan?

Betsy Hodges

The Weekly Wrap 11-9

November 9, 2013

It’s been a few weeks since I did The Wrap™, having been distracted by new polls the last two weeks. But The Wrap™ returns, to do it’s Wrapy thing once again and all of Minnesota Politicoland rejoices. ♣ First off, the unofficial election results from the elections on Tuesday in Minneapolis that had to go […]

Differentiate, it’s what we do

November 8, 2013

Looking for a difference everywhere

Surly Five

Elections Live Blog

November 5, 2013

[liveblog] Pictured above is a bottle of Surly Five that I pulled out of my beer cellar for just this occasion. This occasion being an election of course. But not just an election, no no no, a very special, 35 contestant, Ranked Choice Voting open seat Minneapolis Mayoral election. Plus a whole bunch of competitive […]