Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Minnesota’s Broken Transportation Funding System

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Note:  This blog appeared as my regular column in the December 22, 2014 edition of the Capitol report (Politics in Minnesota).     Not only ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Tinker, Tailor, President, Spy: American Politics at the End of 2014

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The November 2014 elections already seem ancient history.   Yet in barely seven weeks a host of major events have transpired, raising i...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

What We have Learned from Michael Brown and Eric Garner

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Something is wrong with the law if those entrusted to enforce it repeatedly violate it.  This is the troubling story of  race and Michael Br...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

The Immigration Reform Trap (Or how the GOP took the bait)

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So Obama finally showed some backbone and did what he should have done before the election–he acted on immigration.  Had he done this befo...
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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Getting It Wrong: The Myth of Massive Ticket-Splitting in the 2014 Minnesota Elections

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I am not sure if it is bad math or bad journalism, but contrary to popular accounts, it is highly unlikely that 450,000 voters in Minnesota ...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

What if we gave an election and nobody came?

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Well, literally not nobody came, instead, as Woody Allen once said, 90% of life is just showing up and that is what the Republicans did on T...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Why the DFL will lose the Minnesota House

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The DFL are going to lose the Minnesota House.  There are many reasons for this but the main one is arrogance–both a refusal to recognize a ...
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