Ken Silverstein has a wonderfully acerbic Q & A with Chris Lehman about campaign coverage over at Harper’s. A senior editor at Congressional Quarterly and co-editor of Bookforum, Lehman mercilessly skewers the media for its horse-race…
Today is the vice-presidential equinox — the longest day on the 2008 political calendar, or at least the most interminable one, the day before the major parties’ VP picks start dropping. Seldom have so many (present company included)…
A Minnesota Public Radio/Hubert H. Humphrey Institute poll released Thursday has Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. John McCain in Minnesota by 10 points. Forty-eight percent support Obama while 38 percent pick McCain, who has not led in Minnesota polling since March. Independent candidate Ralph Nader garnered 3 percent in the poll and Libertarian candidate Bob Barr had one percent support.
If McCain picks Gov. Tim Pawlenty as his running mate, about one in five respondents said they would be more likely to vote Republican. “McCain’s choice of Pawlenty appears to lift his support by 13 points: 25% of undecided voters and initial Obama supporters report that Pawlenty’s presence on the ticket would pull them over,” wrote the polls authors. “This could be enough to move Minnesota into the Republican column for the first time since 1972.”
This is anything but verified, but it’s the most specific and piquant word we’ve heard about the GOP veepstakes in quite a while. In Michigan, at least, the word going round McCain’s campaign and its top supporters is…
Last week we sampled the spam Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s office released in response to a Minnesota Independent request. Pawlenty’s staff says he sends no e-mail and says under law they can make public only one of every seven…
Mike Allen and a pair of Politico colleagues just filed the story that’s bound to dominate GOP veepstakes chatter for the next day or two. They report that McCain has put the GOP on notice that he may choose against type on the matter of abortion rights to better his chances among moderates of both parties and independents.
On Monday, in response to a Minnesota Independent public data request, Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s office turned over to MnIndy more than 100 emails the governor received during a four-day period last month.
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s audition on the national stage continues today. This morning he appeared at GOPAC and had some rare kind words for Barack Obama. Then it was on to the National Press…
In a conference call for the McCain campaign yesterday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty again hammered Barack Obama for his recent remarks suggesting that if all Americans maintained properly inflated tires, fuel-efficiency would increase by…
Vice-presidential candidates rarely inspire reporters to dig deep into their past. Tim Pawlenty might or might not prove an exception in view of the nationally notorious calamity that occurred on his watch when the 35W bridge collapsed. Seeking to give…
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