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 […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Differentiate, it’s what we do

November 8, 2013

Looking for a difference everywhere

by Jeff Wilfahrt

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 […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Heaven is going bankrupt – give us what you’ve got

November 5, 2013

He’s not leaving until the money is gone

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Ranked Choice Voting Talking Points Scorecard

The Ranked Choice Voting Spin Cycle

November 4, 2013

A few weeks back I wrote the following: And when the number one talking point for a thing is factually incorrect, it makes me wonder about the rest of the talking points. The thing to which I was referring, if the title of this post hasn’t yet given it away, is Ranked Choice Voting. The […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Al Franken still in catbird seat

November 3, 2013

This is the second post dealing with the new Public Policy Polling poll of the Minnesota electoral landscape for 2014. The first post dealt with the Gubernatorial portion of the poll, this post will deal with the Senatorial portion of the poll. To wit: PPP (10/27-29, 5/17-19 in parenthesis, 1/18-20 in brackets): Do you approve or disapprove of […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Today in completely bogus camfi complaints

November 2, 2013

Legal frivolity

by Steve Timmer

Mark Dayton’s standing improves

November 2, 2013

PPP’s most recent poll shows some improvement for Governor Mark Dayton

by Tony Petrangelo

Fiscal Conservation – the low hanging fruit

October 30, 2013

We are NOT broke, we’re just unwilling to harvest the money.

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Second poll in less than a week shows John Kline in trouble

October 30, 2013

Last week I covered a PPP poll sponsored by The House Majority PAC which showed John Kline trailing his 2012 opponent, DFLer Mike Obermueller, 42-38. That poll was what you might call a “shock poll.” A poll with numbers so different from anything seen before that it shocks the senses. But shock polls can sometimes […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Robert Panning-Miller at Drinking Liberally

October 29, 2013

Rob asks, “What happens when you row a boat in several directions at once?”

by Steve Timmer

If only these things were true

October 28, 2013

The youth force us to contemplate revolutionary things

by Jeff Wilfahrt