A flashpoint in the 3rd Congressional District mini-debate on TPT’s Almanac program Friday (video) was Republican candidate Erik Paulsen’s charge that DFL candidate Ashwin Madia has illegally coordinated his campaign with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, an…
Remember the second questioner from the second presidential debate? His name was Oliver Clark. Remember how John McCain answered Clark’s bailout question? He said lots of things, but you’ll remember this zinger: “The match that lit this fire was…
Last night’s presidential debate went handily to Barack Obama, according to a variety of sources: CBS’ poll of undecided voters found that 40 percent thought the Illinois senator won, compared to 26 who sided with McCain; and CNN’s flash poll was higher for Obama, 54 to 30 percent. But perhaps the biggest topic of conversation this morning is… how much the candidates seem to despise each other. Here’s a video rundown of a few key points, starting with McCain’s “Minnesota Nice” utterance — “my friends,” which he said 21 times — followed by the post-debate handshake that wasn’t and the instance when McCain, in a moment his campaign says was supposed to be funny, couldn’t say Obama’s name, but called him “that one.”
Republican incumbent Rep. Michele Bachmann and two challengers who hope to unseat her to represent Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District in Washington met in Stillwater Wednesday evening for the first candidates’ forum. In front of a standing-room-only crowd, Bachmann, DFL-endorsed El Tinklenberg and Bob Anderson, the unendorsed Independence Party candidate, sparred mainly over the economy, although energy, the war in Iraq and the Stillwater lift bridge each garnered some attention.
The best line of the night came when Tinklenberg criticized Bachmann on her offshore and ANWR drilling proposals: “The strategy that she has proposed of ‘Drain America First’ is a bad strategy.”
A stock line of Sen. John McCain’s over the years has been that the vice president of the United States really only has two duties. He hasn’t always named the same two duties, but none would require of Gov.…
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…
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…
The race and debate draw national attention.
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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…
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
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