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Can we please give the Senate seat to the ‘Crazy McCain Lady’?

By Paul Demko | 01.01.09 | 7:00 am

Thanks for the memories. Now please go away. Yes, we’re talking about you, Rudy Giuliani. And you, Wolf Blitzer. We no longer wish to be a swing state. Henceforth the residents of the state of Minnesota promise to vote reliably Democratic. Or Republican. It doesn’t much matter which — just as long as you people promise to stop showing up in our little slice of the frozen tundra seeking to feel our pain. But to memorialize the horrors visited upon us during the (still ongoing) campaign season, we offer — in honor of our favorite member of the Statewide General Election Canvassing Board — the G. Barry Anderson Awards.

RNC drops nearly $85k on Palin’s Minneapolis shopping sprees

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.22.08 | 8:42 am

Politico is reporting that the Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 purchasing clothing for Sarah Palin and her family, according to just-released financial disclosures — including a $75,000 shopping spree at Minneapolis’ Nieman Marcus in early…