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Dean Carlson

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
5 years 20 weeks

Recent Comments

Posted on 01/13/11 at 08:28 am in response to The Star Tribune's op-ed lineup turns rightward

This would be meaningful if anyone actually read the dang thing.

Posted on 01/05/11 at 03:00 pm in response to Financial aid for college: tips for the new FAFSA form

I filled out the FASA for the first time the other day and I found it to be extremely easy and intuitive. No issues whatsoever.

Posted on 11/29/10 at 05:04 pm in response to Dayton side happy with recount so far

So does this end quickly? We need 4000 votes to switch. I'm not seeing it or am I missing something?

Posted on 11/18/10 at 01:38 pm in response to The GOP complaint on the governor's recount: what we know and what we don't

Ah but Neal, Sutton isn't trying to get an A in his statistics class. He's trying to sow doubt and fear about voting in Minnesota. So even if Dayton is declared the winner, he has a bunch of motivated conservatives howling about an election stolen from the Republicans. You can bet they will be motivated to vote next time.

This is what they did two years ago with the Senate race where you still have conservatives stating there was fraud in that election even though Coleman's own...

Posted on 11/04/10 at 07:28 am in response to Likely Minnesota House Speaker Kurt Zellers has one-track mind: jobs (and related issues)

I am guessing that since Representative Zellers is so keen on creating jobs that we will see vigorous budgets for MNSCU, the U of MN, and K-12 education as numerous studies have shown that education is the path toward a strong and healthy economy.

Posted on 11/03/10 at 11:09 am in response to Recount Redux: How this year's might look the same -- and a bit different -- from 2008

I think the 9700 or so vote differential will make this recount a lot different. In Coleman-Franklin and a couple hundred vote differential, intellectually it wasn't a stretch to see a 300 vote swing. Now it will take 5000 votes. If the margin stays that big, there will be pressure on Emmer to give up once the recount is over.

Posted on 11/01/10 at 03:41 pm in response to Local guy bests ex-local-guy in argument over 'Rally to Restore Sanity'

That's a nice takedown of the Carr article, which I thought was insufferable. I'm guessing Carr doesn't watch TDS. He seemed generally surprised that Stewart took whacks at Media and not the Right. Note to Carr, Stewart has always been about skewering the media, your article (had it been in video form) would have been easy pickin's.

Posted on 10/29/10 at 10:17 am in response to Group behind ominous voter-fraud ads: 'All we are doing is watching'

This could be so easy to counteract. Why don't those who are concerned about this overwhelm the phone number? Let's face it, they aren't going to get a whole lot of calls on Tuesday. It wouldn't take a whole lot of effort to get people to call in bogus fraud claims for Eagan, Woodbury, Delano, etc. Make Election Integrity Watch spend their resources on bogus claims. Come on young people who are concerned about this, have some fun and overwhelm the call in number.

Posted on 10/29/10 at 08:52 am in response to SurveyUSA/KSTP gubernatorial poll: Emmer within 1

Yes SUSA nailed the 2006 Gub race but I would argue they lucked into it. The last few days of that race saw a lot of independents go to the R's after Dutcher's E85 gaffe and Hatch's Republican Whore remark. I don't think SUSA caught that and if Hatch and Dutcher had just been a little more disciplined, could have won that race by a couple of percentage points. I would say the SUSA repuation as being 4 points in favor of R's is well-earned.

Posted on 10/18/10 at 03:45 pm in response to Horner's non-metro endorsers focus on subsidies, not gay marriage

perhaps the party base will rethink its current strategy and next time choose the candidate best suited to win. Rather than the candidate that most appeals to the ideology of the party base.

Hey Richard, if the DFL didn't learn that lesson after 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, what makes you you think they will learn it now?