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The office of Rep. Keith Ellison says a Thursday report by the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute is “shameful.” The institute’s blog, Smart Politics, examined contributors to Ellison’s campaign, noting that a number of those were out of state — and implying many were Muslim.

In a post (not a battleship) christened “The Unsinkable Michele Bachmann,” the University of Minnesota’s Smart Politics blog predicts the 6th District congresswoman will coast to re-election in 2010, if the 6th District sees only the slightest shift of political breezes that lately have been blowing Democrats’ way. And it doesn’t matter what she says, [...]

Al Franken is taking a scolding in some quarters for declaring victory yesterday after the State Canvassing Board certified that he received 225 more votes than former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman in Minnesota’s Senate recount. So it’s probably best if he stays off the front steps of his downtown Minneapolis condo today and makes no public comment about this development: A University of Minnesota political scientist has calculated that Franken stands a 67 percent chance of winning re-election to the Senate in 2014 — assuming he ever gets seated in the first place, that is.