Tag: MNGov 2010
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Dayton’s School Daze?
Sheila Corbett Kihne from the excellent blog “Activist Next Door” did something nobody else in the Twin Cities media seems to feel the need to do; she started asking questions about Mark Dayton’s biography: Mark Dayton’s current website biography reads: After college, I taught 9th grade general science for two years in a New York…
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MPR Poll: My Take
It’s just an MPR poll. But we’re just about two months from the election – so we’re getting to the point that a well-done poll is getting to be worth something. The poll – which focuses on likely voters, whom conventional wisdom says tend to break for the GOP – shows that the money Dayton’s…
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MPR Poll: This Has Got To Scare The DFL
I thought this part of MPR‘s piece on the MPR/Humphrey Institute poll was interesting: While Democrats in Minnesota often rely on the lopsided support of women to win elections, a significant gender gap has not materialized in the 2010 gubernatorial race. Women favor Dayon and men favor Emmer by similar margins as in the education…
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MPR Poll: Disaffected
Reading through MPR’s piece on the latest MPR/Humphrey Institute poll: Both Dayton and Emmer are seeing the effects of voter backlashes as both President Obama and Gov. Tim Pawlenty appear to be hurting their party’s chances. Of likely voters in Minnesota, 64 percent say the U.S. is on the wrong track, while 53 percent say…
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MPR Poll: Even Up
The latest MPR/Humphrey Institute poll is showing a tossup Tom Emmer and Democrat Mark Dayton are running are running even in the 2010 race for governor according to a new MPR News-Humphrey Institute Poll… …Among likely voters, Mark Dayton and Tom Emmer are even at 34 percent support each. Independence Party candidate Tom Horner received 13…
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Chanting Points Memo: “Maaaaaah! Tom’s Smearing Me!”
In the DFL “Unity” rally yesterday, Mark Dayton – who has funded, along with his family, the most expensive orgy of attack advertising in Minnesota history, unprecedented in both its cost and its fallaciousness – complained: “I expected the smears to start right away, and they have.” He was complaining, of course, because after a…
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Skittle Dee Dee
OK, DFL. You wanna bag on Tom Emmer from behind the cover of your little smear group? Here you go. It’s from that shadowy, mysterious group, the Minnesota GOP.
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And So It’s Dayton
So here you go, DFLers. After three months of flinging poo at Emmer’s 20 year old careless driving conviction, at his utterly accurate statements on the cost of minimum wage law to both restauranteurs and lower-income food-service workers, and the free speech rights of corporations to combat the uncontested free speech rights of unions and…