The economic sky is not falling, according to Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley. Or at least the federal government hasn’t provided sufficient factual evidence to justify a hastily arranged, $700 billion bailout package for Wall Street. “I am not convinced that we have to rush to judgment on this,” Barkley said at a press conference this morning at the Capitol.
With the last month of a very long presidential campaign nearly upon us, we were interested to see what one of the most provocative and insightful consultants in political advertising had to say about Barack Obama and John McCain’s media strategies up to now.
So I phoned up Bill Hillsman, the person Slate has called “the world’s greatest political ad man.” What Hillsman has to say about the use of media so far in the presidential campaign is a warning of sorts to Barack Obama and the Democrats.
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza has released his latest rankings of which U.S. Senate seats are most likely to flip parties in November. Continuing to occupy a prime spot on the list is the post held by Norm…
After a couple of weeks on unscheduled hiatus during MnIndy’s coverage of the Republican convention and its aftermath, David Schultz and the Schultz Report are back with us today. In this audiocast, Schultz talks about Sarah Palin, evangelicals and swing voters, and he discusses a surprising turn in the Minnesota US Senate race: Independence Party endorsee Dean Barkley, who most observers expected to hurt Al Franken, seems to be peeling away Sen. Norm Coleman’s more tepid supporters and helping Franken.
A pair of polls released this weekend indicate that the U.S. Senate contest is extremely close with less than two months until election day. The Minnesota Poll shows Republican Sen. Norm Coleman with a four-point advantage over Democrat…
Al Franken will comfortably advance from today’s primary election to take on Norm Coleman in the U. S. Senate race. With more than 80 percent of the results in, Franken is carrying 67 percent of the vote in the seven-candidate field. His most credible challenger, attorney Priscilla Lord Faris, is currently garnering support from 29 percent of voters.
There’s a primary election today in Minnesota. You can be forgiven for not having noticed. With the temporary Republican takeover of the Twin Cities and a U.S. Senate race that’s been billed as a two-candidate duel for months,…
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…
Last month Jesse Ventura floated the idea of joining the race to unseat incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman in an interview with the Associated Press. The gambit seemed more like an attempt by the…
They say that numbers don’t lie. If so, then there are three numbers that tell a dismal tale for the Independence Party: 37, 16 and six. That’s the share of the vote Independence Party gubernatorial candidates won in…
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