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The Weekly Wrap 10-12

October 12, 2013

♣ On Monday I posted “Ask Me Anything: Ranked Choice Voting,” in which I invited readers, such as yourself, to ask me any questions they may have about Ranked Choice Voting. Next week I will start answering those questions. It’s not too late to get your question in. ♣ ICYMI, Minnesota’s Sally Jo Sorensen got […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 10-5

October 5, 2013

Not much happened this week as far as The Wrap™ is concerned (being the persnickety beast that it is, The Wrap™ deals only with, or mostly with, elections news and not process and policy, or lack of process and policy, news) as all of the oxygen in the world of politics is being sucked up […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 9/28

September 28, 2013

♣ The long and winding road that was Michael Brodkorb’s lawsuit against the Minnesota Senate is now over. The Minnesota Senate will pay former Republican staffer Michael Brodkorb $30,000 to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit that it has already spent more than $300,000 to defend. The only winners are the lawyers that represented the Senate. […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 9-14

September 14, 2013

Last week I didn’t do a Wrap™, instead I wrote over 1,000 words about Minnesota’s congressional delegation and the pending congressional vote on Syria and how people voted may or may not affect them in 2014. So, I did that, and then everything changed and Congress didn’t end up voting on the Syria resolution after […]

by Tony Petrangelo

New SUSA poll shows Dayton treading water

September 13, 2013

But gaining among indies

by Tony Petrangelo

Minnesota’s Congressional Delegation, Syria and 2014

September 7, 2013

[Editors Note: typically I do a Weekly Wrap™ on the weekends. This week I got about 600 words into the first item about the Syria vote and thought to myself (and here’s where the editor’s note goes even more meta), “self, you should just make this it’s own stand-alone post.” So that’s what this is. […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 7-27

July 27, 2013

Kline under 50% and a possible game changer in the third

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 7-21

July 21, 2013

Talking money, candidates and lines on the map

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 7-13

July 13, 2013

After a week off, the Wrap returns to do it’s Wrap thing

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 6-29

June 29, 2013

♣ In news neither shocking or new at this point, Kurt Zellers last Sunday announced that he will in fact be running for Governor of Minnesota. This brings the total number of white male Republican candidates for Governor to three. ♣ Also not shocking but a little bit more new: Senator Dave Thompson also announced he […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Al Franken maintains strong approvals

June 24, 2013

While they are not quite Klobacharian, Al Franken continues to sport enviable approval numbers with Minnesota voters. Mason-Dixon (6/18, 9/23/12 in parenthesis): Do you approve or disapprove of Al Franken’s job performance as U.S. Senator? Approve 55 (52) Disapprove 29 (40) Undecided 16 (8) (MoE: ±3.5%) The numbers in the parenthesis above, the numbers from September, are not the numbers cited […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 6-22

June 22, 2013

Zellers to announce, Abeler, Benson, Hilstrom get in and Schiff gets out

by Tony Petrangelo