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The end game: Mayor Coleman set to endorse Obama

By Paul Demko | 06.03.08 | 10:43 am


St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman will endorse Barack Obama at tonight’s Xcel center rally, the Pioneer Press reports. He has been a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter, but apparently can read the delegate writing…

How does an Obama victory shake up Minnewisowa?

By Paul Demko | 06.03.08 | 10:23 am

Minnewisowa is Barry Casselman’s term for the 27 presidential electoral votes held by Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Writing on Real Clear Politics, he figures that Barack Obama slightly strengthens the prospects of Democrats in…

Countdown to concession: Is today the day for Barack Obama?

By Paul Schmelzer | 06.03.08 | 9:20 am


A dignified exit or a secret coup? Or a continuing race? Hillary as Obama’s health secretary? (John Edwards as his attorney general and Joe Biden as Secretary of State?) Speculation is…

Ron Paul confirms plan for “big rally” at RNC

By Tom Elko | 06.02.08 | 10:42 am

Newsweek conducted a brief Q&A session with Rep. Ron Paul, R- Tex., and directly asked him about his plans for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul:

“We’ll have a big rally there one of the…

Bill Clinton’s jogging partner

By Paul Demko | 06.02.08 | 9:30 am

Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair hit piece on Bill Clinton includes this juicy nugget starring WCCO radio host Eleanor Mondale:

In the run-up to the 1996 re-election campaign, when Clinton took one of his many fund-raising trips

Minneapolis politicians and activists at odds over ‘neighborhood revitalization’

By Anna Pratt | 06.02.08 | 9:12 am

While some politicians tout a piece of recent legislation as one way to continue Minneapolis’ Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) beyond its original 2009 end date, critics see flaws in its vague terminology, and question how dollars will…

DFL operative claims Ciresi likely to remain on the sidelines

By Paul Demko | 05.30.08 | 6:21 pm

Speculation has been rampant since the Al Franken campaign’s latest imbroglio broke that Mike Ciresi will climb back into the race. While Ciresi has been quiet in the last 24 hours (he didn’t return a…

Obama will come to St. Paul to declare victory on Tuesday evening

By Paul Demko | 05.30.08 | 6:20 pm

Time Magazine is reporting that Barack Obama will lay claim to the Democratic presidential nomination at Xcel Energy Center on Tuesday evening. With primaries in South Dakota and Montana slated for that day, Obama is…

Video: Everything John McCain knows about Iraq is wrong, part 47

By Steve Perry | 05.30.08 | 3:10 pm

John McCain — who in the past few months has made a number of flatly false claims about the Iraq War (most memorably, about Shi’ite Iran training Sunni al Qaeda members, and the terms of the…

Fast work: McClellan book already a DNC anti-McCain ad

By Steve Perry | 05.30.08 | 1:35 pm

Just two days after the news of Scott McClellan’s book broke, the Democratic National Committee has already posted a web ad tying McClellan’s disclosures about the selling of the war to John McCain’s pledge to continue the fight. It concludes…