Tag: MN CD3
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Just Goes To Show You
A couple of Berg’s Law references, here: Berg’s Eleventh Law of Inverse Viability: The conservative liberals “respect” for their “conservative principles” will the the one that has the least chance of ever getting elected. And its corollary: The McCain Corollary To Berg’s Eleventh Law: If that respected conservative ever develops a chance of getting elected,…
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The Campaign That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, Part IV: Howling With Mild Approval
As we’ve been noting this week, the DFL candidate in the 3rd CD, Brian Barnes, may be a heck of a guy – but his campaign has been making some odd choices. Their campaign signs – one of which I finally saw on the street the other day – still violate FEC law. which is…
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The Campaign That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, Part III: “How Ya Doing, Rockford?”
On paper, the Minnesota Third Congressional District is “purple”. And by “on paper”, I mean “In the Strib“. Yes, for decades the district was represented by moderate, IR-era Republicans like Jim Ramstad, Bill Frenzel and Clark McGregor. And Erik Paulsen has had to work with a lot of different constituencies to win in the Third; he’s…
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The Campaign That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, Part II: From The Ether
This week, we’ve been looking at the DFL-endorsee Brian Barnes and his campaign for the MN Third Congressional District seat held by Erik Paulsen. Yesterday we noted they bobbled a niggling but, er, Federal regulation on their new batch of lawn signs. Today? We’ll get serious. Earlier this week, the Barnes campaign sent a fundraising…
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The Campaign That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, Part I: Signs, Signs, Everywhere Are Signs
The other day, I took a rare drive thorough the western suburbs. I don’t get out there much, so it’s always fun to drive through a place that’s been good Republican territory – or at the very least, a place with a vigorous two-party government (which most of the “safe Republican” districts in this state are, in…
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Brian Barnes: “Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been Teh ExTrE3M?”
Brian Barnes is running for Congress in the 3rd CD. You might not have heard of him, even if you live there. He’s run a fairly hapless, lackluster campaign, with none of the cachet or pizzazz of Ashwin Madia. I think the only serious question about his campaign so far has been “is Erik…
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Chanting Points Memo: Barnes Bobbles Facts
Legal language is a funny thing. And by “funny”, we mean “funny weird”, not “funny haha”. One of the left’s latest chanting points – abetted by Todd Akin’s groaner last week – is that a group of GOP legislators co-sponsored a bill, HR3, better known as the “No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion” bill. The title…
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Sartre Had A Point
When it comes to D-list political punditry, hell is other peoples’ predictions. Don’t get me wrong. I’m someone else’s “other people”. And my predictions have been…well, generally good. I called the 2004 Prez and 2006 Governor’s races pretty much to the point. I nailed the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 8th CDs almost to the vote.…
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Dayton Sends In The Temps
After spending millions of dollars upsetting the DFL machine, and then more on the campaign of toxic sleaze that put him in office by a whisker, it seems Mark Dayton really doesn’t want to do his job all that badly. After rejecting a balanced Republican budget that not only lives within state revenue but also…
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Money Changes Everything
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism from 9AM-3PM. Ed is off on assignment; he’ll be calling in from CPAC. I’ll be issuing my own State of the State address. We’ll also have Congressman Erik Paulsen on to talk about his efforts against Obamacare and other tax reform…
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Stewardess? I Speak Jive…
We’ve established this for quite some time – DFL Minnesotans speak a very, very different language from Real Minnesotans. Case in point – Dave Mindeman at mnpACT, doing his fifth annual “Ten Worst Political Persons In Minnesota of 2010” award (an awarad that lacks the cool, polished cachet of the Shooties, and which Mindeman admits…
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…And The Sky Is Softly Humming
It wasn’t the outcome I expected. In some ways, it was better. Top stories from last night: No Tails: Lord Fauntelroy will spend his term – one, singular – holed up in the Governor’s office, facing a legislature that is not only GOP, but is focused way beyond Mark Dayton. Holed up in the…
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At The Victory Party
I’m at the Sheraton for the GOP’s victory party. Early word – unconfirmed – is that turnout in Duluth and the Twin Cities is a little low. I haven’t gotten any but anecdotal confirmation that turnout in “red” Minnesota is high, but the anecdotal feedback is good. We shall see. Liveblogging will be a tad…
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100 Reasons I’m Voting For Tom Emmer
As I do before every important election, I’m listing the top 100 reasons I’m voting for the top of the ticket. Of course, I became an Emmer supporter long ago. The GOP started the campaign early – right around State Fair time in 2009 – with a crop of great candidates and rumored candidates. Paul…
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Out In The Street
The U of M College Republicans are going to be protesting the President’s pep rally for Lord Fauntelroy at the U of M today. Via Luke Hellier at MDE, the details: The College Republicans at the University of Minnesota, along with Students for a Conservative Voice, and other grassroots activists from the metro area will…
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A Not So Modest, Utterly Pragmatic Proposal
It’s go time for Republicans in Minnesota. And by “Republicans”, I mean conservatives, and people who can be convinced that Minnesota’s liberal traditions and Barack Obama/Mark Dayton’s takeover of society will leave us all the worse for wear. If you live in the Third Congressional District, you are in a semi-competitive race – but Jim…
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Underdogs
John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson responded to my story last week about the internal polling in District 32B. Scott adds a note of cautious sobriety: Over the weekend John noted Mitch Berg’s assertion regarding a possible Republican surge in a part of Minnesota’s Third Congressional District (House District 32B). The poll in 32B that Mitch…
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Buyer’s Remorse
The DFL – and their national benefactors – went all-in on Tarryl Clark against their bete noir, Michele Bachmann. Clark is getting clobbered. Hammered. Beaten like a cheap steak. She’s going to lose by 10 points, and I actually starting to think I’m being conservative. And the regional left is starting to have second thoughts…
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Everything You Believe About Minnesota Is Wrong
This post was largely written for the national audience at Hot Air’s Greenroom, where it is posted. My radio colleagues Ed Morrissey (with the A-squad Hot Air) and King Banaian (of SCSU Scholars, also found in the Green Room) will post on occasion about politics in Minnesota, where the three of us live, work, blog…
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Who Do Minnesota Liberals Hate: The Pack
GREETINGS MERCURY RISING “Reader”/”s”: “Phoenix Woman” (has anyone ever noticed that her and Ken “Avidor” Weiner have never been seen in the same place?) apparently thinks that any reference to Bradlee Dean is not only a) a wholehearted endorsement of every minute facet of his worldview, and b) since I am a Republican, proof that…
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Who Do Minnesota Liberal Hate: The Best Of The Rest
Earlier this week, I took a poll – what Minnesota conservatives do Minnesota liberals hate the most? I collected responses via the comment section, my facebook page, and email – and got a pretty fair bunch of responses. There were some surprises and at least a couple of foregone conclusions. I’m going to publish 11-20…
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I Am The Champion, My Friends. And I’ll Keep On Being Right…To The End!
Back during the 2008 race, a local leftyblogger called the NARN in a state of high-dudgeon over my statemenat Erik Paulsen was running a conservative campaign for the Third Congressional District. The caller bellowed “You’re a Liar!!!”, which is leftyblogger-speak for “I disagree with you, but I can’t coherently articulate why”. My point at the…
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Chanting Points Digest: Emmer’s First Six Weeks
We’ve been covering the DFL’s chanting points for the past month or so. As the DFL still has two months to go until they get to the primary, they still have eight weeks of internecine bloodletting before they actually have to try to unite behind Mark Dayton. And so the regional media and the left-leaning…
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Shifting Priorities
There’s an old Soviet-era joke that I remember from when I was a kid. A Soviet radio station in Minsk was broadcasting a talk show. The host said “Minsk is the most beautiful city in all of the Soviet Union”. A caller rang in, and asked “what do you think of the story that the…