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The Schultz Report: Is Minnesota another Florida 2000? No, and yes

In this week’s edition of the Schultz Report audiocast, David Schultz examines the looming vote recount in the Minnesota US Senate face-off between Sen. Norm Coleman and Al Franken.

Is the situation here another Florida 2000 cage match, as so many pundits are claiming? In most respects, Schultz thinks the answer is no. But when it comes to the stakes and the political gamesmanship, that’s another matter.


The Schultz Report: Franken campaign setting itself up for a fall?

In this week’s edition of The Schultz Report [archive], we open by talking about the factors that contributed to the precipitous tumble in Hillary Clinton’s approval ratings in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released yesterday (previous item), ranging from her ad hominem-laden campaign to the Bosnia “misstatement.”

David Schultz also discusses the Minnesota US Senate campaign [...]


The Schultz Report: Obama and Clinton wonder what to do; Franken v. Coleman gets underway

On this week’s David Schultz audiocast, we discuss the impasse at which the Obama and Clinton campaigns have found themselves after Mississippi; the launch of the main event–Franken versus Coleman–in the US Senate race; and the status of Tim Pawlenty’s VP aspirations.

“It’s limbo for both candidates,” Schultz says of the long interregnum between the Democratic [...]