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Pawlenty on ‘Hardball’: I’ll chow down at stimulus plan’s ‘meandering buffet’

By Chris Steller | 02.20.09 | 8:54 am

tpaw-msnbc2MSNBC must stand for Minnesotans Speak Nightly By Cable. For the fourth straight night, the TV news channel carried a segment featuring a prominent elected official from the state. Thursday it was again Gov. Tim Pawlenty, this…

Charts show state vote count toyed with tie more in ’62 than ’08

By Chris Steller | 11.11.08 | 4:38 pm

As wild as it seemed, the fluctuation of the tally last week in the Franken-Coleman U.S. Senate contest wasn’t your father’s vote roller coaster. Comparing hour-by-hour graphs from the early hours of two tight Minnesota election battles shows how in 1962 the gubernatorial election results toyed with an even tie, while 2008′s senatorial showdown was more a steady descent to a 200-vote gap.