The Minnesota State Primary on August 9th has a number of interesting contests which include insurgences from the left against DFLers and the right against Republicans. As we saw during the Presidential Primary season, there is a lot of unrest in our politics this...
Latest News There is no endorsement in the 60B House race We are on-hand at NE Middle School for the DFL endorsing convention for House District 60B. At this moment the candidates are in a Q&A session for 30 minutes and then the first ballot will commence. The...
Rep. Phyllis Kahn (DFL-60B, Minneapolis), first took office on Jan 02, 1973 and is one of the two longest serving legislators in MN history along with Rep. Lyndon Carlson (DFL-45A, Robbinsdale), who claims to have been sworn in first due to alphabetical order. She has...
The participation rate in the Republican Primary was quite pathetic in general and even worse when compared to the DFL. In spite of not having a serious Primary Challenger Governor Mark Dayton (DFL-MN) and Lt Governor Candidate Tina Smith (DFL-MN) scored 177,648 and...
In general, this Primary election is a snoozer. We expect the overall turnout not to exceed 200,000 in all of the primary contests combined. In 2010, the total turnout was 292,834. It is interesting to note that with the new rules for non-excuse absentee voting may...
