Debate

As a former candidate for governor, Alaska state representative Andrew Halcro has debated Sarah Palin some two dozen times. In an essay and audio interview with the Christian Science Monitor, the blogger and Independent candidate calls Palin a “master of the non-answer” and recalls a conversation he had with Palin during the campaign. In a [...]

Before the final debates for the governors and senators race the intersection of Exchange and Wabasha filled up with candidate supporters, chanting, shouting, singing and drumming up enthusiasm for the last two days of campaigning.

By five Hatch and Klobuchar supporters had started to turn out and were trying to cover all 4 corners. Soon after [...]

The race and debate draw national attention.

(Part 2 of 2 parts)

Two years ago Minnesota Republican 1st District Congressman Gil Gutknecht had a cakewalk of an election. Not so this year against high school teacher and retired National Guardsman Tim Walz of Mankato. The two candidates faced each other Thursday night at Bethany Lutheran College in [...]

The Gutknecht-Walz debate in Owatonna on Saturday was well covered by Bluestem Prairie, who observed it firsthand. Among newspapers, it seems only the Owatonna Peoples Press wrote it up, though it may yet come up in the AgriNews. And I could not find any mention of the debate in either the Rochester Post-Bulletin or the [...]