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Campaign Notebook: Ciresi leaves Senate race; what next?

By Joe Bodell | 03.11.08 | 7:21 am

Following attorney Mike Ciresi’s departure on Monday from the U.S. Senate race, what happens now?

Ciresi’s withdrawal leaves Al Franken going head-to-head with Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, who has gotten activists excited with his “most important decade” stump…

Ciresi drops out of US Senate race

By Steve Perry | 03.10.08 | 5:20 pm

Mike Ciresi announced Monday afternoon that he’s exiting the US Senate race. “In my judgment,” writes Ciresi in a statement posted at his campaign website, “continuing the endorsement race would only lead to an unnecessary floor…

Campaign Notebook: is it March already?

By Joe Bodell | 03.01.08 | 8:07 am

Anyone out there who’s been waiting for a break in the election-season action is going to have to wait a little longer.  2008 is sixty days old, and this cycle isn’t letting up any time soon.

President

Hillary Clinton is…

You don’t know Jack, but you do know Norm — and he’s in trouble

By Jeff Fecke | 02.01.08 | 2:14 pm

PhotobucketSen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., is a talented and resilient politician. Your average politician would have found his career in ruins after losing a statewide race to a third-party candidate who made his name as a pro wrestler. And…

Franken ads rile Team Coleman, recall Kennedy

By Joe Bodell | 01.14.08 | 10:15 pm

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken will start two TV ads Tuesday, and the ads remind some of a 2006 Senate candidate — Republican Mark Kennedy.

In a face-to-face preview provided by the campaign, Franken’s staff gave several bloggers some…

Campaign Notebook: Senate Q4 money numbers

By Joe Bodell | 01.08.08 | 7:15 am

Something or other is going on in New Hampshire today. Plenty of coverage of primary results, as well as analysis and reaction from the blogs, to come later in the day.

In the meantime, we have money numbers in the…

Moe Endorsement Mailing a Problem for Ciresi?

By Joe Bodell | 12.10.07 | 7:49 am

Is an endorsement letter from former Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe more trouble than it’s worth for Mike Ciresi?

Such a letter from Moe recently appeared in the mailboxes of DFL state convention delegates and alternates.  The letter outlined Moe’s…

Campaign Notebook: Turkey Hangover?

By Joe Bodell | 11.26.07 | 7:00 am

What did candidates and campaigns do for the Thanksgiving holiday, and were those activities all politics?

Well, perhaps not all politics, but national holidays are a good chance for campaigns to tout their candidates’ human sides and perhaps a bit…

Team Ciresi Sends Misleading Message to Supporters

By Joe Bodell | 11.08.07 | 7:30 am

JoeBodell01_2.jpgCue Insider Baseball music on this one.

After the bevy of Senate polls early this week, Mike Ciresi’s campaign sent out an email update to its list of supporters that contained…

SurveyUSA: Coleman in Dead Heat with Challengers

By Joe Bodell | 11.05.07 | 7:21 pm

In a poll conducted at the end of October, SurveyUSA has found incumbent Norm Coleman in a dead heat with his two leading DFL challengers.

Coleman matches up at 46-45 percent…