MN lege: Loving these DFL pickup opportunities, Part 2

September 29, 2020

Districts 22-28

by Dan Burns

MN lege: Loving these DFL pickup opportunities, Part 1

September 21, 2020

Districts 1-21

by Dan Burns

MN-01: Rep. Hagedorn’s history of deranged, bigoted nonsense is not just history

July 27, 2020

Recent stuff: In a Facebook post published on June 23, Congressman Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) used white nationalist rhetoric to condemn the Black Lives Matter movement. Hagedorn wrote that the Black Lives Matter movement is “at war with our country, our beliefs and western culture.” He insisted that Americans must oppose the Black Lives Matter movement […]

by Dan Burns

MN-08: Ditching Rep. Stauber, Part 1

July 18, 2020

I live in MN-08, though so close to its south boundary that if I was literally less than a half-mile south of where I’m sitting at my desk right now I’d be in MN-06. Which would in a way make this easier, because Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN-06) is, given his obnoxious, arrogant demeanor, and the […]

by Dan Burns

Winning MN-08

July 9, 2020

Quinn Nystrom will be the DFL candidate for the U.S. House, from Minnesota Congressional District 8. Here’s her website. Some background, for non-Minnesota politics junkies. For a long, long time MN-08 was considered deep blue. It was represented for decades by the late James Oberstar, who rarely if ever had much trouble getting reelected…until the […]

by Dan Burns

I’ll be voting for Sanders on Super Tuesday

February 23, 2020

With comments.

by Dan Burns

House district 5A representative John Persell

Who are the most vulnerable members of the Minnesota House of Representatives?

December 9, 2019

For a number of years DailyKos Elections has computed the House Vulnerability Index (HVI), a metric that endeavors to rank current members of the US House of Representatives according to how vulnerable they are in the next election. The way the index works is fairly simple, all the Democrats (and Republicans) are ordered and ranked […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Pete Buttigieg pulls ahead

November 19, 2019

The Most Trusted Name In Iowa Political Polling™, Ann Seltzer, dropped a new poll on Saturday that showed a completely different race from the one we saw just two months ago. This time, instead of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren in the lead, this poll finds the leader of a small provincial fiefdom South Bend, Indiana […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Soon to be former St. Paul Council-member Kassim Busuri

Chasing Those Precious Second Choice Votes Part 2

November 11, 2019

On Friday November 8th St. Paul conducted the reallocation of Ranked Choice Voting Votes for Wards 1 and 6. This was a big moment for the anonymous St. Paul “insider” we were introduced to in part one of this soon to be concluded series. Either the “insider” would be correct and Ward 6 Council-member Kassim […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Likely St. Paul Ward 6 winner Nelsie Yang

Chasing Those Precious Second Choice Votes

November 6, 2019

Appointed St. Paul Council-member Kassim Busuri appears to have lost his seat in yesterdays elections. I say appears because while he’s way, way behind, and has no realistic chance of victory, he’s not actually eliminated yet. He could still pull this thing out. If you read the mistake-prone half of the Morning Hot Take Dish […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Checking out some recent polling in Minnesota

October 16, 2019

Primarily in an effort to limit the quantity of “bad” stress in my life, I’m not the polls junkie I used to be. That said, Public Policy Polling recently polled our state (commissioned by Alliance for a Better Minnesota), and I got to pondering. It’s easy to react with something like “44% job approval seems […]

by Dan Burns

MN-01: Dan Feehan is going to kick butt

October 3, 2019

It was Feehan vs. Hagedorn in 2018. The latter is now Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), but not by much. Feehan has announced a rematch. My intent is not to dismiss any other DFLers who may get in, but I think it’s a pretty safe bet that it will be Feehan on the ballot, again. And […]

by Dan Burns