Jul 27, 2018
The increase participation in Early Voting builds a case for this being the potential for the highest turnout in state history. As the Primary Numbers increase they become less ideological and reflect more of an alignment toward a General Electorate. This is bad news...
Jul 27, 2018
If the Early Voting trend continues as much as 20-25% of the votes cast in the State Primary could be by mailed ballot. We have heard as many as 100,000 mailed ballots have been requested and the report from the Secretary of State Office shows 29.657 ballots have been...
Jul 27, 2018
It was surprising to see State Rep Steve Drazkowski (R-21B, Mazeppa) calling out an ethical lapse against State Rep Ilhan Omar (DFL-60B, Minneapolis) yesterday. Fellow legislator accuses Ilhan Omar of using campaign funds for divorce lawyer His line of attack seems to...
Jul 27, 2018
Because we have seen many last-minute issues crop up in October that played a significant impact on our November Election the term October Surprise has become part of our political lexicon. i.e. John Grunseth’s Pool Incident, the death of Paul Wellstone Now, we...
Jul 27, 2018
Farmers have weaned themselves off of farm subsidies, but will the proposal by Donald J Trump to provide $12 billion in subsidies to farmers be another welfare bailout. Trump is trying to ameliorate the problem he created through a pay-off. The soybean market has felt...
Jul 16, 2018
Today, the actual campaign finance numbers for the various federal campaigns are being posted on the FEC.gov site. The numbers started rolling out slowly, but we stepped behind the scenes found information from the raw reports, and we will be updating as any new...
Jul 13, 2018
State Senator Patricia Torres Ray (DFL-63, Minneapolis) has started to ad race in the MN05’s Congressional District contest by putting out a Facebook ad this morning. https://www.facebook.com/TorresRayMN/videos/2190990001176402 We are wondering what other ads we...
Jul 11, 2018
The DFL race for Governor is being tactically affected by the deployment of an internal poll which simultaneously serves two different campaigns, Walz and Swanson. The data of which we speak is a poll conducted June 25-27, 2018 of 602 Likely Primary Voters by the...
Jul 11, 2018
When Trump Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee US Senator Al Franken (D-MN) was by far the most poignant and effective critic of the nominee. Now, without Franken, we will be left to our Senior Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)...
Jul 11, 2018
In an attempt to show some reality in the hype associated with the race for the MN05 Congressional District seat the former House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher (D-MN05) campaign released their fundraising totals, which, we know are ahead of the goal set for the...
