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Who are the most vulnerable members of the Minnesota House of Representatives?

December 9, 2019

For a number of years DailyKos Elections has computed the House Vulnerability Index (HVI), a metric that endeavors to rank current members of the US House of Representatives according to how vulnerable they are in the next election. The way the index works is fairly simple, all the Democrats (and Republicans) are ordered and ranked […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Pete Buttigieg pulls ahead

November 19, 2019

The Most Trusted Name In Iowa Political Polling™, Ann Seltzer, dropped a new poll on Saturday that showed a completely different race from the one we saw just two months ago. This time, instead of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren in the lead, this poll finds the leader of a small provincial fiefdom South Bend, Indiana […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Corporate Dems look to ram through “new NAFTA”

November 17, 2019

Contrary to what some may be claiming, this pretty much bites. “Not quite as bad as the old NAFTA” is not the same as “good.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at her weekly press conference (November 14) that a deal on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was “imminent,” and that it would serve as a template […]

by Dan Burns

MN-01: Dan Feehan is going to kick butt

October 3, 2019

It was Feehan vs. Hagedorn in 2018. The latter is now Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), but not by much. Feehan has announced a rematch. My intent is not to dismiss any other DFLers who may get in, but I think it’s a pretty safe bet that it will be Feehan on the ballot, again. And […]

by Dan Burns

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

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

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

Corporate media cowers on Trump racism, and the results are pitiful

August 6, 2019

1. First and foremost, they never actually use the word “racist” to describe someone who is exactly that. Doing so might get c. media’s base (tellingly, the same as the Republican Party’s), of subscribers/viewers/listeners considerably removed from their first youth, all riled up. But journalists too often look away, insisting they can’t tell where Trump […]

by Dan Burns

A Minnesota Congressman is in over his head

June 21, 2019

Big surprise: The National Republican Congressional Committee, which is the official campaign arm of the House GOP, has gotten lacerated in recent weeks over its chaotic PR efforts and shabby fundraising—so much so that a nasty dispute burst into the open between committee chair Tom Emmer and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in […]

by Dan Burns

Considering Amy

November 23, 2018

Professor Mark Osler tagged me in a Facebook post linking to his opinion piece in The Hill advancing the idea that Sen. Amy Klobuchar should run for president in 2020. Perhaps the tag was to invite comments from me; I hope so, because I have some. They aren’t the same as the professor’s, though. Summarizing […]

by Steve Timmer