The Weekly Wrap 5-18

May 18, 2013

♣ The big news this week was the passage through the Senate, and the signing by Governor Dayton, of the Marriage equality bill. That happened on Monday and Tuesday. The next day, Wednesday, Minnesotans United for All Families, the organization that was instrumental in the defeat of the Marriage amendment last November and in the […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 4-13

April 13, 2013

♣ Yet another Some Dude business type (the other being Scott Honour) has indicated that he might be running against Al Franken in 2014. Mike McFadden of the firm Lazard Middle Market has been meeting with political consultants and Republican Party leaders to talk about a possible run. The MNGOP really doesn’t have much of […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 3-29

March 29, 2013

♣ Michele Bachmann find herself in the news once again, this time not for things that she said, but rather things that she did or didn’t do on her way to finishing sixth in the Iowa caucuses: The Daily Beast has learned that federal investigators are now interviewing former Bachmann campaign staffers nationwide about alleged […]

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 2-8

February 8, 2013

A poll that consumes the better part of the wrap this week

by Tony Petrangelo

LeftMN Radio Hour 1-27

January 27, 2013

This week we welcome longtime Republican campaign operative Ben Golnik on the big show to talk about the budget

by Tony Petrangelo

Al Franken looking good for re-election

January 22, 2013

So sayith a poll from this day

by Tony Petrangelo

The Weekly Wrap 11-23

November 23, 2012

Ballots get tossed out in a house race and the 2014 rumor mill is already kicking into gear

by Tony Petrangelo

Minnesotans shrug off President Obama’s debate performance

October 10, 2012

And Amy Klobuchar expands her lead over Kurt Bills

by Tony Petrangelo

First poll with Klobuchar against Bills is like every other MN Senate poll so far

June 9, 2012

PPP (6/8, no trend lines): Amy Klobuchar (D-inc) 55 Kurt Bills (R) 29 Undecided 16 (MoE: ±3.1%) PPP tested four different people against Amy Klobuchar and they all fared pretty much the same, A-Klo was between 56-55 and everyone they put up against her was between 29-27. Of all the people who they put up […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Thanks, I’ll be here all week; try the veal

May 22, 2012

Kurt opens in the Borscht Belt

by Steve Timmer

The Pharaoh and the bill collectors

May 9, 2012

The meddling Pharaoh from Chicago

by Steve Timmer