Category: Campaign ’10
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For Your Convenience
Democrats: pre-marked ballots in Nevada: Some voters in Boulder City complained on Monday that their ballot had been cast before they went to the polls, raising questions about Clark County’s electronic voting machines. Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid’s name was already checked.…
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Required Viewing
Marco Rubio’s big home-stretch web ad…: …should not only be required viewing for every American, it should form the basis of the GOP platform at every level.
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Dateline: March 26, 2011
The following scene presumes – heaven forfend – that Mark Dayton wins the election. SCENE: Office of Governor Mark Dayton. Dayton is sitting in his chair, idly twirling a nut back and forth on a bolt. DAYTON: (Continues to twirl bolt for about five minutes, back and forth and back and forth…) (Esme Murphy –…
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In Case There Is Any Doubt
I was, to the best of my knowledge, the first blogger in Minnesota to publish predictions to which he has stuck through the campaign (other than the traditional “I’m gonna vote for the party with which I’m identified!” that, let’s be honest, is pretty much de rigeur among partisan bloggers). So while I reserve the…
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Inching Right
RCP has moved Minnesota from “Leans Democratic” to Toss Up. Seems they know the same thing about the “Minnesota Poll” that the rest of us do; it’s fantasy.
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Hatch And Swanson: Peas In An Authoritarian Pod
If you haven’t watched Chris Barden – GOP candidate for Attorney General – and his indictment of Attorney General Swanson and the man who pretty much pulls her strings, Mike Hatch, watch this: The stuff about using staff to file grandstanding lawsuits that publicized his office but played fast and loose with the law? We’ve…
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Somewhere In The Swamps
Chris Christie endorses Emmer:
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Chanting Points Memo: Numbers
The DFL’s been trying to make a lot out of the last few polls released on the Minnesota Gubernatorial race. Most of them show Dayton leading Emmer by one margin or another – from the tight to the ludicrous. Ed and I were discussing the polls on our show over the weekend, and we noticed…
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Behold The DFL Jobs Plan
After decades of control by the ultraliberal DFL and a GOP that was merely center-left until probably fifteen years ago, Minnesota has had business and corporate tax rates that rivalled some of the nation’s worst tax hellholes – New York, California, New Jersey. Liberals inevitably respond “well, look at all the companies that have their…
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The DFL Morale Builder, Part II
The Star Tribune‘s “Minnesota Poll” continues to serve its primary function – manipulating voter turnout. As always with the MNPoll, the marquee numbers are nearly meaningless; Dayton has strengthened his lead to 41 percent, according to the poll, followed by Emmer at 34 percent. Horner, who has struggled to get out of the teens in…
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The Unthinkable: Duluth Paper Endorses Cravaack
The Duluth News-Tribune – a traditionally left-leaning paper in a traditionally left-leaning district – Ou endorses Republican challenger Chip Cravaack over 18-term incumbent DFLer Jim Oberstar. While giving a nod to Oberstar’s “achievements”, and acknowledging his vote for Clinton’s “debt reduction” bill in 1993 (that relied on tax hikes more than spending cuts), the DNT…
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Obama At Northrup
President Barack Obama spoke at Northrup Auditorium to a crowd of about 11,000 people today. That’s 9,000 fewer than Bill Clinton drew. Clinton Packed The 19,000-Seat Target Center. “President Clinton used to refer politely to Bob Dole as ‘my opponent.’ But over the last two days, Clinton has stopped doing even that, and in what…
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News Flash?
From Blois Olson’s “Morning Take“: word has it that the Duluth News Tribune is doing to do the unthinkable: Sources close to the CD8 campaign of Republican Chip Cravaack are telling people that on Sunday the Duluth News Tribune will endorse his candidacy to replace Democrat Rep. Jim Oberstar. I’m not going to write “Developing…”…
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Chanting Points Memo: They Hate You. They Really Really Hate You
It’s about jobs and the economy, stupid. Let me repeat that: Jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy. That sorta sums it up. Well, not to the DFL and their various paid, unpaid and indirectly-paid hangers-on on the…
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Indictment
Chris Barden, GOP candidate for Attorney General, states his case against Lori Swanson – the latest in a two-generation uninterrupted chain of one-party domination of the AG’s office. I urge you to watch the whole thing. A few “highlights”: 1:07 – Channel 4 tries to interview Swanson about the irregularities Barden found – and gets…
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Arrogant, Thin-Skinned, Out Of Touch
Jim Oberstar’s top ten moments from the debate the other day. Must be hard to suffer the bitter gun-clinging Jesus freaks – er, I mean the “Flat Earth Society”.
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GOP Notables Endorse Horner
A group of former GOP legislators and governors have endorsed Tom Horner. I brought a camera to their press conference.
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Chanting Points Memo: “Anti-Gay”
One of Big Left’s attacks against Tom Emmer in this election is that he’s “anti-gay”. It drove the most egregious tempest in this election’s teapot – the mass PR mau-mauing of the relentlessly-“Diversity”-hugging Target Corporation on behalf of Big Gay for donating money to “MN Forward”, a PAC that promotes pelting gays with rocks and…
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Chanting Points Memo: Garbage In, Garbage Out
Mark Dayton has run one of the single dumbest campaigns in Minnesota history. Dayton himself has been a virtual non-entity, relying on the Twin Cities’ media’s inability and/or unwillingness to question him on his background, the immense gaps in his budget “plan”, his history of erratic behavior…anything. His surrogates have been another matter entirely; “Alliance…
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Work To Be Done
Being a wanna-be wonk who writes a political blog and does a show at a talk radio station whose audience is frighteningly well-informed and follows politics pretty obsessively. And while they didn’t obsess on the subject, I certainly grew up in household where politics was an occasional subject of discussion. I have been more or…
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Oberstar Breaking The Law?
The other day Politico did a piece about Jim Oberstar’s fundraising, and how little of it comes from within the Eighth District. And one of his staffers apparently knows something the rest of is don’t. Or didn’t. Emphasis added: “They are taking lawn signs, putting up lawn signs, making voter-contact calls, door-knocking, distributing campaign [literature],”…
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Emmer Rally With Mitt Romney
I’m live at the Ramada in Bloomington to cover Tom Emmer’s appearance with Mitt Romney. I’ll be doing a joint live-blog with Luke Hellier at Minnesota Democrats Exposed;click on the player below to watch and participate. Mitt Romney Rally for Tom Emmer
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Coleman: “Shut Up, Peasants”
From the Strib endorsement of “Indpendence” Party former-Republican-who’s-turned-into-a-moderate-DFLer-who-had-to -join-the-IP-because-the-DFL-has-become-so-freaking-extreme Tom Horner: Not since Elmer L. Andersen in 1960 has a successful business owner and CEO left a prominent Minnesota firm to seek the governorship. Like Andersen, Horner, the cofounder of the Himle Horner public-relations firm, is doing so for the best of reasons: He loves…
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How The Hell Does Emmer Win This Thing, Part II
In this past week, Minnesota has been presented with four different polls on the Minnesota governor’s race; the risible Minnesota poll, the oddly-disconnected Humphrey Institute Poll, the Rasmussen Poll (which may or may not have overpolled Republicans, as opposed to the MN and HHH polls, which certainly overpolled Democrats) and, late last week, the SurveyUSA (SUSA)…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Follow the bouncing Dayton funding. Taxpayers League of Minnesota website here. Sign up to be a poll challenger. Minnesota Majority here. The Sons of Liberty? Right here! Joel Demos’ website. And his latest ad: