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John Edwards

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
4 years 7 weeks

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Posted on 12/11/12 at 03:37 pm in response to Lobbyist and political fees proposed to cover investigations

We have two arch liberal Democratic senators opposed to a tax increase? I thought Klobuchar's and Franken's party believes that taxes do not affect behavior. I still can't see why these wealthy medical device companies can't pay even more, excuse me, make that pay a little bit more.

Posted on 12/03/12 at 12:12 pm in response to Newspapers still waiting for digital salvation

Any time I see a story like this one that deals in percentages without mentioning actual numbers, I disregard it. I have seen too many businesses crowing about a 50 percent increase in revenue, which means they went from $20,000 to $30,000 in total revenue while a company reporting a four percent decline in revenue may actually still be making millions.

Posted on 11/02/12 at 12:09 pm in response to Small-town Minnesota publisher supports gay marriage, loses subscribers

Interesting how both a small Minnesota newspaper, Monitor News, and a large Minnesota corporation, Target, would lose customers for expressing their political views. Let us all hope that the newspaper gets its cancelling subscribers back and that Target's boycotting gay customers return someday.

Posted on 10/31/12 at 12:24 pm in response to Voter ID? Get the facts across with a story

. . . here is mine from the LA Times Oct. 24 : WASHINGTON – The son of a Virginia congressman resigned from his father’s campaign Wednesday after an undercover video captured him discussing possible voter fraud. Patrick Moran, whose father is Democratic Rep. James P. Moran, was secretly recorded in a video posted by conservative activist James O’Keefe. In the video, Moran, who was working as his father’s campaign field director, talks about using utility bills and other documents to evade...

Posted on 10/30/12 at 12:15 pm in response to Hann-McKendry Senate matchup is another close race in a GOP stronghold

Tom Lyden's reporting is quite revealing because he destroys his own "objectivity." If it was not a story when former DFL Sen. and farmer Jim Vickerman chaired the Agriculture Committee, and when DFL Sen. and educator Sandy Pappas once chaired higher education, why is it a story now?

Wait, of course, Hann is a Republican. MinnPost puts its house "Republican" Cyndy Brucato (liberal Gov. Arne Carlson's former press person) on it for credibility, obviously thinking "this story just...

Posted on 10/26/12 at 12:57 pm in response to St. Cloud State poll shows slender lead for opponents of marriage amendment

Why anyone pays attention to St. Cloud State poll, or Rob Daves who used to run the Minnesota Poll, or the Minnesota Poll is a mystery to me. St. Cloud missed the 2010 Dayton-Emmer race more than anyone. The Minnesota Poll has a long and sordid history of overstating DFL support as this graph by the Washington Post demonstrates:

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Posted on 10/25/12 at 04:34 pm in response to Former Gov. Arne Carlson endorses Graves in 6th District

Sadly, Arne ran as a Republican, but in his heart he was always liberal. To my knowledge, he never had a significant job in the private sector. He was the only full-time Reublican legislator I ever knew. I was aware of numerous liberal DFLers whose job was legislator, which meant their main paycheck came from the taxpayers. I always thought it fortunate for Arne that he was able to marry Barbara, who came from a very wealthy family. Calling Arne a former Republican is like calling former...

Posted on 10/22/12 at 12:16 pm in response to Star Tribune shock poll: the methodology behind the Nolan-Cravaack outlier

In May, the pollster for Al Gore's presidential bid in 2000 and John Edwards' in 2004 and 2008, Harrison Hickman, took the stand in the federal criminal case against Edwards over alleged campaign finance violations.

He was under oath to tell the truth.

Reported Oct. 2 on the left-wing blog Politico was this account by Josh Gerstein of that testimony: Hickman acknowledged that on January 2, 2008, a day before the Iowa caucuses, he sent out a summary of nine post-Christmas Iowa...

Posted on 10/23/12 at 11:15 am in response to Star Tribune shock poll: the methodology behind the Nolan-Cravaack outlier

http://electoralmap.net/2012/2008_election.php

2008 Pollster Report Card which was the final analysis of 2008 polling had Rasmussen Reports
a clear No. 1.

Posted on 10/10/12 at 12:48 pm in response to Poll: Obama widens lead in Minnesota

As the state department starts to throw the Obama administration under the bus over the Benghazi raid (as they go under oath for the committee hearing), will Bachmann's assertion of what is essentially an Obama cover-up be proven correct?