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Dennis Tester

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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Posted on 10/17/12 at 12:30 pm in response to A solid debate ‘win’ for Obama

because they've had running "talk time" meters and I wanted to see if the moderator was going to allocate time equally. The agreed-to two-minute segment format would certainly allow the moderator to do so if they wanted to.

In all three debates, the democrat spoke for more time. In the first debate Obama spoke for 4 minutes longer than Romney, Biden spoke for about 2 minutes longer than Ryan, and then last night Obama again was given 4 more minutes (9%) than Romney.

If you...

Posted on 10/15/12 at 08:32 am in response to Our Electoral College system is weird — and not in a good way

and more accurate system of electing a president (accurate in that it would better represent who the people wanted to be president) would be to give each congressional district in the state (and country) an electoral vote and the presidential candidate who wins that congressional district would get that vote.

In essence, a proportional system based on congressional districts would give Minnesota 8 votes instead of the current 10.

Posted on 10/13/12 at 08:31 am in response to St. Paul City Council to Congress: Shift military funding to help communities

just passed a resolution that the city of Saint Paul should fill its potholes.

Posted on 10/12/12 at 11:54 am in response to Twin Cities TV market: 11,000-plus political ads for $13 million

the revenue is made up by an expanding economy that generates more taxpayers who flood the government with money

Even Obama claimed (once) that he agrees with that concept which was stated most elequently by JFK when he said that "a rising tide lifts all boats" as he slashed marginal rates by 50%.

Posted on 10/11/12 at 11:03 am in response to Cookin’ jobs numbers? Crazy talk from Jack Welch

When Obama changed the work requirement in the welfare law back in July by giving states the right to redefine work to include doing chores around the house, volunteering at church or going to fitness classes, Romney and republicans in congress were outraged because they assumed it was done to loosen the requirements for welfare ... work requirements they hammered out with Clinton back in 1996 in the landmark welfare reform agreement.

But as it turns out, the change in the definition...

Posted on 10/08/12 at 11:28 am in response to The presidential debate, viewed from the left

with intellectual integrity should register their outrage at this "Tweedle-dee Tweedle-dumness" by staying home on election day. I wonder if Chomsky and Scheer will.

Posted on 10/08/12 at 11:19 am in response to Advocates for poor register homeless voters, worry about ID amendment

is adopt the same identification standard for voting that Dorothy Day uses to provide a free meal.

Posted on 10/08/12 at 12:58 pm in response to Advocates for poor register homeless voters, worry about ID amendment

We'll use the same multi-million dollar database system the corner liquor store or gun shop owner uses to validate our drivers licenses.

Posted on 10/08/12 at 01:58 pm in response to Advocates for poor register homeless voters, worry about ID amendment

That was kind of my point.

Posted on 10/05/12 at 12:25 pm in response to Orchestra lockout prompts the question: What are experts worth?

Your labor is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. In this case it's $89,000 apparently.

If they believe their labor is worth more than that they should try selling it to other orchestras.

Let the market decide.