At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, Victory Solutions Oasis and Rebuild the Party held a post-dinner party with a special guest, Gov. Tim Pawlenty.…
The Al Franken-Norm Coleman Senate contest will be decided in the Minnesota Supreme Court, according to election law experts. But other factors could possibly have the outcome decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
News that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pancreatic cancer is in an early stage and has been treated with surgery is encouraging. Although a serious disease, pancreatic cancer can be surgically removed before it spreads beyond the pancreas…
Since 1998, the Justice Department has been pushing an anti-pornography law that is so vague and technologically illiterate that support for it finally crumbled last week when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the department’s appeal. The law, the Child…
The main story so far in Minnesota’s statewide election recount — besides incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman’s continuing slim lead over Democratic challenger Al Franken and the role of wrongly rejected absentee ballots — has been how the unexpectedly large numbers of ballot challenges from both campaigns have affected the recount’s running vote tally. By questioning election officials on 27 of every 10,000 ballots cast for either man, the campaigns have temporarily removed nearly 6,000 votes from the official recount totals, leaving Coleman in command (for the moment) of a 344-vote advantage. But take one statistic from Monday’s recount action — Coleman challenged 35 more ballots than did Franken — and extrapolate it across eight days of a recount that’s now nine-tenths done, and you can show, on paper at least, how Coleman’s ballot-challenge lead could account for his lead in the running tally of overall votes.
In the third 2008 presidential debate, john McCain made “air quotes” while referring to women’s “health.” This Minnesota Independent video mash-up mixes McCain’s version of the gesture with that of its self-professed inventor: Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies. See all 38 surreal seconds for yourself after the jump.
Sen. Norm Coleman’s record of opposing abortion rights as well as opposing benefits for same-sex couples has garnered him the support of the religious right’s most influential figure: James Dobson of Focus on the Family. The PAC for Focus on the Family is sending out mailers in Minnesota criticizing Al Franken and praising Coleman. The mailer also gives lukewarm support to Sen. John McCain and rails against Sen. Barack Obama.
In this week’s audiocast, Minnesota politics analyst and Hamline University prof David Schultz reviews a flurry of recent developments in the Minnesota US Senate race — Jesse Ventura’s five minutes back in the spotlight; Al Franken’s new Democratic primary challenger,…
Within the past hour, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Heller case. By a 5-4 margin, the court ruled in favor of private gun ownership as a protected activity. The five in…
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