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MN-Gov: GPI update; Ras now says no to leaners
Cross-posted from Minnesota Progressive ProjectRasmussen (10/6, likely voters, 9/22 in parentheses): Mark Dayton (D): 40 (34) Tom Emmer (R): 38 (36) Tom Horner (I): 15 (18) Undecided: 5 (2) (MoE: ±4%)...
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MN-Gov: The Horner Effect, Part 1
Cross-posted from Minnesota Progressive ProjectWhile Minnesota has a rich history of third party successes, the recent era began in 1998 with the election of Jesse Ventura as Governor. Since then there...
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MN-Gov: The Horner Effect, Part 2
Cross-posted from Minnesota Progressive ProjectWhile history suggests that the Independence Party candidate in Minnesota tends to have success at the expense of the DFL candidate, there is reason...
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MN-Gov: GPI update; SurveyUSA is back in the field
Cross-posted from Minnesota Progressive ProjectSurveyUSA (10/14, likely voters, 9/15 in parentheses): Mark Dayton (D): 42 (38) Tom Emmer (R): 37 (36) Tom Horner (I): 14 (18) Undecided: 4 (4) (MoE:...
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MN Redistricting Maps! Round Three - The Court Map, Outstate Edition
Cross posted from MNProgressiveProjectThis is the second part of a post I started two weeks ago going over what I think will be the most likely outcome of the now court lead redistricting process. The...
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MN-Redistricting: Draw the Line Minnesota
On Friday, the Citizens’ Redistricting Commission, a group brought together by Draw the Line Minnesota, submitted it's maps to the Special Redistricting Panel. Here's a statement for the group's chair,...
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MN-Redistricting: Partisan numbers for proposed maps
I tried to resist the urge to break this up into multiple posts and instead just do one big post comparing all the proposals. That post quickly grew to unmanageable proportions though, so I'm going to...
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MN-Redistricting: The Parties' Proposals, Metro edition
Yesterday I posted the partisan numbers of the proposed districts, today I'm going to look at the districts themselves, starting today in the metro and going outstate tomorrow.Before I get into that I...
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MN-Redistricting: The Parties' Proposals, Outstate edition
Friday of last week was the deadline for parties in Minnesota's redistricting lawsuit to submit their maps. Three groups submitted maps; the Britton, Hippert (GOP) and Martin (DFL) intervenors. On...
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With the Minnesota Primary fast approaching on Tuesday, here's a rundown of the competitive races.This content originally appeared on LeftMN as three separate posts; congressional preview, state senate...
View ArticleRoger Goodell defends legacy of racist
There are four teams in Major League Baseball and the National Football League that still use Native American themed names and imagery for their team identities; the Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Braves,...
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Minnesota Senate hPVI, 2013 edition
As readers of DailyKos Elections, you are no doubt familiar with PVI. For the last few years I have been doing a version of PVI for Minnesota Legislative districts that I very creatively call hPVI,...
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