When state legislators want to make major changes to law, sometimes they put the law to the voters to decide. This year, they’re asking Minnesotans where we stand on issues like guns, health care and labor unions. There’s even a bill to ask the voters whether the state Constitution should be amended to change the way Minnesota amends the Constitution.
The religious right had a bad day on Tuesday. The election of Barack Obama and Democratic gains in the U.S. Senate and House put support for religious right policies further out of reach, and there’s plenty of blame to go around. Some say Republican John McCain coddled Obama on the issues, and others point to President Bush’s noncommittal attitude for issues the religious right cares about the most: gay marriage and abortion. The one bit of post-election hope seems to be the ascension of Sarah Palin as a religious right figurehead.
CNN goes Star Wars on Election Night with a “hologram” reporter calling in from Chicago, and apparently the future. Thanks to Talking Points Memo for posting the video with Jedi-like speed. It caused Tweeters from all over to twitter…
The Obama campaign is telling its vast network of supporters that the race in Minnesota is tighter than they expected. Is it a ploy for a last minute get-out-the-vote push? Or is it real concern?
Minnesota Majority, a conservative group that was until recently headed by Republican activist and former Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer, is under fire by current Secretary of State Mark Ritchie for alleged voter intimidation. Ritchie announced today that he has asked prosecutors to look into a phone call placed to a St. Paul man on behalf of the group.
Less than two months before the general election, the Government Accountability Office has released a report on the failures of the “accredited laboratories” that test voting systems. After the debacles that were the 2000 and 2004 elections, when voting…
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The Minneapolis City Council voted this morning on logistics for adopting instant-runoff or ranked-choice voting in the city, but the ordinance cleared without unanimous support and only after significant debate on an amendment to count mismarked ballots.…
A new SurveyUSA poll shows Norm Coleman leading DFL challenger Al Franken, 51 percent to 41 percent. Coleman also came out way ahead of Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, 57-28, and Darryl Stanton, 57-27.
According to the poll, Coleman leads Franken among…
The state of Michigan touches four of the five Great Lakes and is second only to Alaska in shoreline, with 3,288 miles. As various presidential candidates shuttle around “the Great Lakes State,” scant attention has been…
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