There were a number of firsts that occurred in the 1998 Governor’s race besides the My Three Sons Primary and the election of third-party candidate Jesse Ventura, In 1997, the Ted Mondale for Governor campaign took out, what is known as the First Paid Political...
The numbers from the most recent multi-candidate DFL Primaries are listed below. It is important to note, these numbers are from somewhat different districts because of 2012 redistricting, but they are valid ballpark figures. We have broken out the Seven Metro...
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...
The ability for someone to move from the land of journalism into to the advocacy side of politics is not always the easiest transition. Becoming a “flak” after trying to be objective, can cause some problems. We have seen Cyndy Brucato move from Channel 5 into...
The opinion piece signed by Ted Mondale, Sharon Sayles Belton and Peter McLaughlin may not have been the best political stroke. It was blatantly a whack at Attorney General Mike Hatch (DFL-MN) and people closely associated with him are taking names. It won’t be...
