More than 4,000 supporters of Al Franken and Barack Obama gathered at the Minneapolis Convention Center Thursday evening to hear President Bill Clinton stump for the DFL Senate candidate. Clinton spoke for 35 minutes, urging Minnesotans to elect Obama and Franken.
Details and a MnIndy slideshow inside.
Minnesota’s top 100 political donors have pitched in a collective $4.1 million to federal candidates since the start of 2007. That’s around $40,000 per family. In this week’s installment of The Crunch, we look at donors ranked 21st through 30th — a field that includes Vance Opperman, dubbed in 1998 “the most powerful man you’ve never heard of,” who, with his wife, comes in at number 27; gay marriage foe Robert Cummins (#21); and, Minnesota’s 24th most generous giver, Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor and his wife, who’ve contributed nearly $50,000 to state and federal GOP candidates and causes this cycle.
In this edition of the Schultz Report audiocast–and we’ll have another tomorrow, after Barack Obama’s Democratic convention-closing speech in Denver tonight–we examine developments at this week’s DNC. Hamline University political science prof and Minnesota politics analyst David Schultz gives the…
I spent the evening in the scrum of the floor. Strangely it’s not the best vantage point from which to come up with a coherent analysis of the evening. Did Bill Clinton stick a shiv in Barack Obama or anoint him the next black president? Did Joe Biden’s tale of growing up a stuttering outsider in Scranton, Pennsylvania come off as hokum or populist humility? You’re so close to the action that it’s difficult to determine. And the true believers in the Pepsi Center treat every uttered word as if it came directly from God. So I offer up instead a gallery of photos from the evening.
Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair hit piece on Bill Clinton includes this juicy nugget starring WCCO radio host Eleanor Mondale:
In the run-up to the 1996 re-election campaign, when Clinton took one of his many fund-raising trips
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This 2004 speech by Bill Clinton, unearthed by Josh Marshall, is a readymade campaign ad… for Barack Obama.
It’s a familiar ritual by now. Bill Clinton emerges from his hole like Punxsutawney Phil and heads to the stump on Hillary’s behalf, only to wind up heaping obloquy on her through his remarks. Then he’s shuffled off to the…
“Saturday Night Live” opened with a send-up of the release on Friday of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s tax returns, which show the pair made $109 million since 2000. Playing the former first lady, Amy Poehler said that “since…
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“Probably not, but it’s an untested constitutional conundrum,” says the nonpartisan Annenberg Political FactCheck.org. “The original Constitution had no requirements for the office of vice president. However, the 12th Amendment, ratified in 1804, said that, “no person constitutionally ineligible…
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