Shortly after receiving the nod to be the GOP’s 2008 vice presidential candidate in St. Paul, Sarah Palin traveled to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to campaign. In her book “Going Rogue,” she described the town as a “slice of…
Politico reports that Gov. Tim Pawlenty has backed Sen. John McCain for reelection in Arizona and Rep. Roy Blunt for Senate in Missouri. McCain is facing a fierce challenge from Tea Party candidate J.D. Hayworth. Pawlenty, who’s…
Former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton might want to reconsider whether “Glory” is his favorite motion picture. Newly salvaged C-SPAN footage from 2002 showing him getting cut off by John McCain on the Senate floor has given Dayton free…
Al Franken cut off Joe Lieberman’s remarks on health care reform on the floor of the U.S. Senate Thursday. The Connecticut independent had reached the end of his allotted 10 minutes when Franken, presiding over the Senate,…
What is it about riding a bike under a baseball stadium that Tom Coburn and John McCain don’t understand? The senators decried federal stimulus spending to extend the Cedar Lake Bike Trail into downtown Minneapolis,…
The Republican Party isn’t big enough to “throw people overboard,” Gov. Tim Pawlenty told GOP activists in Des Moines on Saturday. Jason Hancock of the Minnesota Independent’s sister site, the Iowa Independent, was there.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty isn’t the first to use the phrase “Freedom First,” the name of his new political action committee (PAC).
Gov. Pawlenty recalls taking comfort at the 2008 Minnesota State Fair after U.S. Sen. John McCain’s campaign for president left him high and dry in Denver. They’d sent him to do TV interviews at Barack Obama’s nominating convention, but…
One-time University of Minnesota football coach Lou Holtz now says he’s not mulling a run for Congress in Florida, as reported. If so, he’d be keeping a promise made in 1983 to the late Rudy…
The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election, veteran Washington Post reporters Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson’s chronicle of last year’s epic campaign, hits bookstores tomorrow. But the newspaper has been teasing it with excerpts.
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