What happened when Republicans controlled Congress?
2006 unemployment #s
4.7...jan.
4.8...feb.
4.7...march
4.7...april
4.7...may
4.6...june
4.7...july
4.7...aug.
4.5...sep.
4.4...oct.
4.5...nov.
4.4...dec.
(From Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture) [...] This is a piece I originally published in April of 2005. Some minor updates and copy-edits have been added.
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When I hear blowhards like Nick Coleman ranting about how Republicans want to “abolish the public school system”, I get a chuckle. I grew up in the public schools – Dad [...]
Republicans have extended their lead in the generic Congressional ballot to their highest level of the year, according to the latest Rasmussen survey of likely voters. The overall Republican rating has not gone beyond their year-long high of 44%, but Democrats continue to decline. Only 37% would vote for [...]
Recent criticisms of Tim Pawlenty’s nascent (if undeclared) presidential campaign have focused on the governor’s strategy of trying to appeal to far-right Republicans instead of being true to his more moderate past (his “Romneyfication,” if you will). Yet during his appearance on Sean Hannity’s show yesterday it’s Pawlenty who [...]
From the newsletter:
It’s Finally Here!
This is to announce the long-awaited arrival of our new SD41 GOP website. You can take a look by typing in either sd41gop.org or sd41gop.com. When you get there, you’ll notice a completely new look and a lot of new material on our first [...]
Charlie Weaver said today in a press release that he won't run for governor in 2010.
Weaver, a Republican and executive director of the Minnesota Business Partnership, has been mentioned for months as one of a couple moderate Republicans interested in running for governor.
“Running for Governor is a full time job' [...]
While Republicans Erik Paulsen and Michele Bachmann are leading by a wide margin in the amount of funds raised overall by the Gopher State's U.S. House representatives and announced congressional candidates in the current election cycle, it is Bachmann's two DFL challengers, Maureen Reed and Tarryl Clark, [...]
Former GOP state Rep. Ron Erhardt of Edina is exploring a run for his old House seat as a Democrat.
“I’m looking to run. I raised money earlier in the year,” said Erhardt today in a telephone interview with PIM.
Erhardt, a moderate, spent nine terms in the House. When Republicans controlled [...]
Now [...]
I don't go to the WaPo's Chris Cilizza for keen-eyed observations on conservatives or Republicans.
But his piece in "The Fix" on the Minnesota goober race provides some junk food for thought:
Norm Coleman (R) isn't expected to make a decision on the 2010 governor's race until next year but a [...]
Two DFL candidates registered campaign committees with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board this week to challenge two prominent state Senate Republicans.
Gregory A. French of Byron seeks to unseat Senate Minority Leader David Senjem, R-Rochester, in Senate District 29, and Ron Case of Eden Prairie is challenging Assistant [...]
College Republicans at the U of M, Team Up With MN Senate Candidate David Carlson for the [...]
Over Republicans’ charges of political gamesmanship, the state House Rules Committee this morning agreed to issue a friend-of-the-court brief opposing Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s budget cutting unallotments earlier this summer.
The resolution passed on a 14-8 party-line vote.
The move won’t make the House a plaintiff in the complaint filed in Ramsey [...]
Via Minnesota Independent, the Cook Political Report ranks the 3rd and 6th districts vulnerable for Republicans.
MNPublius looks at our budget and sees no help from the unallotment.
Dave Mindeman at mnpACT! on why MN might have its credit rating downgraded further.
Check out [...]
