Sen. Hillary Clinton joined 2,200 supporters of Al Franken at the University of Minnesota on Tuesday evening to support his bid for U.S. Senate. A slew of DFL politicians rallied the crowd, all with a singular message — Franken is the key to a 60-seat, filibuster-proof Senate.
Minnesota’s top 100 political donors have pitched in a collective $4.1 million to federal candidates since the start of 2007. That’s around $40,000 per family. In this week’s installment of The Crunch, we look at donors ranked 21st through 30th — a field that includes Vance Opperman, dubbed in 1998 “the most powerful man you’ve never heard of,” who, with his wife, comes in at number 27; gay marriage foe Robert Cummins (#21); and, Minnesota’s 24th most generous giver, Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor and his wife, who’ve contributed nearly $50,000 to state and federal GOP candidates and causes this cycle.
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…
The elusive, but powerful PUMA has become a mythic figure at the Democratic National Convention. By reading the media coverage, you’d think these beasts are prowling every street corner in downtown Denver, threatening to overpower Barack Obama with a cloud of estrogen. But strange…
Last night Hillary Clinton forcefully endorsed Barack Obama for president and implored her backers to follow suit. This morning the Minnesota delegation’s Clinton supporters declared that they are united in heeding her advice.
“We’ve all spent a lot…
It was the old Reagan/Bush I hand Peggy Noonan who described the stakes in Hillary Clinton’s speech to the DNC most succinctly. It was clear, more or less, what Clinton would say, Noonan told NBC. What mattered was the inflection…
On day two of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Democrats finally went after Republican John McCain with some ferocity. Here are some memorable moments and shout-outs to the locals, along with links to transcripts of Tuesdays speeches.
The subtext of the convention so far has been whether Hillary Clinton’s supporters will ultimately back Barack Obama in overwhelming numbers. Whether that conflict is truly significant — or trumped up by the media — is an open…
The convention floor is much more of a sweaty scrum tonight. Every time you stop to gape at Wolf Blitzer or shoot a photograph of some stray senator, there’s seemingly three people demanding that you keep moving. It makes…
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean delivered a 20-minute, meat-and-potatoes speech to the state DFL convention in Rochester this afternoon, vowing to win back the White House and increase the party’s margins…
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