How Donald Trump almost won Minnesota

November 30, 2016

Donald Trump came as close to winning Minnesota as any Republican since Ronald Reagan, is a sentence I never expected I would write, but here we are. Donald Trump lost Minnesota by 1.5%, the closest margin in a Presidential race in the state since Walter Mondale beat Reagan by less than a quarter of a percent […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Damn you, Electoral Collage!

November 22, 2016

I saw a tweet the other day blaming the “Electoral Collage” for Hillary Clinton’s loss. A typo, no doubt, but I like the imagery. There has been a lot of blaming of the Electoral College for the Democrats’ losses, noting that Clinton won the popular vote, which she did. But that is not the way we […]

by Steve Timmer

This is why you can’t get a majority opinion out of the Supreme Court

November 6, 2016

In the Op Ex section of the Strib on today, rather than trying to write a single editorial about What the Hell is Going On, they gave everybody some ink in signed pieces. They called it What, us worry? It was pretty good, really. I can only imagine the editorial board meeting leading up to […]

by Steve Timmer

Trump is right: The election is rigged — but in his favor

October 21, 2016

Professor Schultz’s recent article in The Hill

by David Schultz

Here a VAT, etc., part three

October 3, 2016

See the update at the foot of the story. In the first and second stories in this series, I described how the international trading system is stacked against US manufacturing workers, and that much of it is our own fault. Or more accurately, it is because we want it that way. The neo-liberal elites who […]

by Steve Timmer

A David Schultz reader

August 2, 2016

Hamline’s Professor David Schultz has had a series of insightful posts about the presidential race on his blog, Schultz’s Take. Professor Schultz writes stories here once in a while, and I am tempted to crib his latest batch en masse. But I will make you go over to his blog instead. You might start with […]

by Steve Timmer

Who’s really the hair trigger candidate, anyway?

June 3, 2016

On Thursday, June 2nd, Hillary Clinton had one of those adolescent run up to the door, ring the bell, and run away moments. She said, in a moment of actual clarity (I guess that is what it was), that this was “actual reality,” and that Donald Trump was “thin-skinned” and might plunge the US into war […]

by Steve Timmer

Who would Paul Wellstone support?

May 18, 2016

Announcing a LeftMN essay contest

by Steve Timmer

How Trump may shock the world again

May 8, 2016

And why Hillary Clinton is running as a Republican

by David Schultz

Norm Coleman won’t vote for the Donald

March 5, 2016

And it’s all Barack Obama’s fault!

by Steve Timmer

It’s like the Jerry Springer show, without Jerry

August 9, 2015

That was the most memorable line on Almanac last Friday evening, August 7th, uttered by Professor David Schultz, and describing the Fox News candidate debate the night before. It’s cracked me up every time I’ve muttered it under my breath for a couple of days now. Professor Schultz followed it up with a story on […]

by Steve Timmer