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: Obama, Dems need a compelling alternative to the Paulson swindle

This week in the Schultz Report, we discuss the only issue that matters at the moment–the financial meltdown on Wall Street and the Paulson plan that’s currently being bum-rushed through Congress, which would give the US Treasury secretary absolutely unprecedented power to buy up bad debt with public dollars, and without any public oversight or future public benefit in the form of equity in the companies we’re bailing out.

The Schultz Report: Obama and the Democrats did what they needed to do

Today David Schultz and I talk about the dramatic conclusion Barack Obama’s speech brought to the Democratic convention in Denver. All in all, he says, it capped a week in which all the major Democrats featured at DNC said…

The Schultz Report: Enough with the unity rhetoric; what will Obama do?

In this edition of the Schultz Report audiocast–and we’ll have another tomorrow, after Barack Obama’s Democratic convention-closing speech in Denver tonight–we examine developments at this week’s DNC. Hamline University political science prof and Minnesota politics analyst David Schultz gives the…

The Schultz Report: McCain can’t evade the age issue much longer — can he?

This week, as the political news cycle takes a back seat to the Olympics and most federal campaigns take advantage of the chance to lie low and catch a breath, politics analyst David Schultz and I turn to a couple…

The Schultz Report: What’s causing Obama’s slump in the polls?

In this week’s audiocast, we take a step back from the droppings of the daily news cycle to discuss some of the reasons Barack Obama’s campaign has been foundering in national head-to-head polling against John McCain for some time now.…

The Schultz Report: Franken campaign finally beginning to show some life

In this week’s Schultz Report, we talk foreign policy and the presidential campaign, reviewing Barack Obama’s weekend trip to the Middle East and John McCain’s verbal excursion to the non-existent Iraq-Pakistan border; we discuss the fundraising picture in the Third…

The Schultz Report: No Jesse, but plenty of scurrying as Senate race deadline arrives

In this week’s audiocast, Minnesota politics analyst and Hamline University prof David Schultz reviews a flurry of recent developments in the Minnesota US Senate race — Jesse Ventura’s five minutes back in the spotlight; Al Franken’s new Democratic primary challenger,…

The Schultz Report: Obama fiddles, Wes Clark (and liberals) get burned

Today’s Schultz Report begins with a review of the public pillorying of Wes Clark last week for daring suggest that being a POW and a war hero did not qualify John McCain to be president–a fairly terrifying little spectacle in…

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…