Posts by Joe Bodell
Campaign Notebook: Presidential update
It’s been a busy 24 hours in the presidential race — let’s break down recent events:
Mitt Romney endorses John McCain: This wasn’t entirely unexpected — for Romney to come out for Mike Huckabee, who has…
KSTP poll: Senate matchups and Pawlenty-as-VP
With all the action lately in the presidential race, you might have forgotten that there’s a relatively big Senate race going on around here these days, too. A recent poll for KSTP shows a statistical dead heat between incumbent…
FISA revision passes the Senate with retroactive telecom immunity
A bill revising the Foreign Intelligence Security Act has passed the U.S. Senate with a provision to provide retroactive immunity to telecom companies for any illegal activities undertaken at the behest of the Bush administration.
The final vote on passage…
Campaign Notebook: Obama rolls through the Potomac
Living up to expectations and polls, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) won the Potomac primaries in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C., defeating his Senate colleague Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.).
In Virginia, Obama won by a margin of 63-36 as of 9 p.m.…
That didn’t take long
MSNBC is calling the Virginia Democratic primary for Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) just 14 minutes after the polls closed.
Campaign Notebook: An eventful weekend
The presidential campaign marched onward this weekend, with some big wins, a few surprises, a sprinkling of intrigue and one major staff shakeup. Let’s break it down:
On the Democratic side, the weekend was a sweep for Sen. Barack Obama…
Michigan and Florida present a solvable problem
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The news that the Democratic National Committee had stripped Michigan and Florida of their delegates — or rather, that they’d been stripped of the right to have their delegates seated at the convention — was treated somewhat lightly when…
Sarvi announces bid for Congress, faces big hurdles
Iraq vet Steve Sarvi made official his bid to unseat three-term incumbent John Kline in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District.
Sarvi has generated good reviews so far from DFL activists who see him as a strong challenger to Kline, who has…
Walz to back Obama’s White House bid
First-term congressman Tim Walz today threw his superdelegate support behind Barack Obama’s presidential bid.
In a release, Walz later said “Last night at the Democratic caucuses, the voters of southern Minnesota overwhelmingly supported Sen. Barack Obama and his hopeful vision…
Obama, Romney win MN caucuses; other races provide drama, quotes
A headline like that simply doesn’t do justice to what happened in Minnesota yesterday.
DFL officials were projecting extremely heavy turnout, possibly topping 120,000 votes. Barack Obama beat that total himself, and handily at that.
In a stunning victory, the…
