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Dean Carlson

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
5 years 21 weeks

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Posted on 07/01/09 at 01:01 pm in response to Why Franken won and the lessons we all learned

Dan above gets close to hitting the nail on the head. The reason why Franken won? Barack Obama. Had Obama won MN by 12 points, Franken wins easily. Obama win MN by 8? Hello Senator Coleman. The fact that Obama won the state by 10 points almost guaranteed the razor thin margin.

Posted on 06/30/09 at 02:30 pm in response to Coleman's reaction coming at 3 p.m.

O.k. I'll go out on a limb at 2:30p, 30 minutes before his press conference and say that Coleman concedes today.

Posted on 06/24/09 at 10:08 am in response to Suburban Rep. Laura Brod could be intriguing GOP candidate for governor

If (male) voters use the criteria, ahem, "easy on the eyes" Representative Brod will go far indeed.

Posted on 06/18/09 at 02:53 pm in response to Advance checklist for the MN Supremes' Franken-Coleman ruling

Lucked out! No Senate news and a Twins win!

Posted on 06/10/09 at 07:48 am in response to A tightwad tours Target Field

The Twins prohibition on photo taking is puzzling and just plain stoopid. Talk about a missed P.R. opportunity. I don't know what the Twins think they will gain by having very little images of the ballpark out on what Norm Coleman's calls the Ethernet.

Compare and contrast with TCF Bank Stadium where Goldy and Tim Brewster post 100's of construction photos and videos on their facebook pages.

We pick our $12 seats on Monday. Looking for Section 324 or so.

Posted on 06/05/09 at 05:56 pm in response to Can either party endorse a candidate for governor who will appeal to mainstream Minnesota?

Paul Udstrand wrote:

biggest violations of public trust in this states history (Twins stadium). That was a back door, under the table, behind the backs welfare program for a billionaire.

Huh? Can you name another piece of legislation passed and signed by the Governor that got as much public attention as the ballpark finance bill?

Be against the ballpark, the money the Pohlad's will make, whatever, but no one with a straight face can say it happened in a back door, under...

Posted on 06/04/09 at 10:43 am in response to Can either party endorse a candidate for governor who will appeal to mainstream Minnesota?

I really have to disagree with Opat's statement that it is the diminishing influence of the trades that has lead to unelectable candidates. In fact in both 2002 and 2006 it was union support that pushed Roger Moe over Judy Dutcher and Mike Hatch over Steve Kelley for the DFL endorsement. In my opinion Both Dutcher and Kelley would have fared much better over Tim Pawlenty and probably would have won either election.

Go back to coverage of both endorsing conventions, it was the labor...

Posted on 05/29/09 at 09:49 am in response to I'm back and playing catchup on Sotomayor nomination

Back to my first comment above. Yesterday Bill Bennett and Fred Barnes were having a "discussion" about Sotomayor and implying that she got into Princeton via affirmative action. When pointed out that she graduated Summa Cum Laud, Barnes said, while maybe it's one of those "schools where if you aren't SCL you have a D+ average." Princeton. It's patently ridiculous that AA has anything to do with Sotomayor's academic accomplishments.

Now come on, if Sotomayor was a white man with...

Posted on 05/28/09 at 07:36 am in response to I'm back and playing catchup on Sotomayor nomination

Peder: My first comments were directed more at those critics who aren't as nuanced and thoughtful of their criticisms of Sotomayor as you are. They are out there and Republicans will need to be careful that the cavemen don't take all the oxygen out of the debate.

I am concerned however that you base your entire "identity politics" concerns over one admittedly inartfully articulated comment taken out of context of a much larger discussion. Do you have other examples of Sotomayor's...

Posted on 05/27/09 at 09:21 pm in response to I'm back and playing catchup on Sotomayor nomination

Hey Peter Defor, who said it:

"And that's why I went into that in my opening statement. Because when a case comes before me involving, let's say, someone who is an immigrant -- and we get an awful lot of immigration cases and naturalization cases -- I can't help but think of my own ancestors, because it wasn't that long ago when they were in that position...

When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because...