It wasn’t just Trump: How the DFL harnessed a massive get-out-the-vote effort to win the ’burbs
The DFL spent $21 million on its ground game, which is the most it has ever doled out for such efforts. But the party also had help.
State Government
How the heads of the Minnesota GOP, DFL explain the election
It is hard to separate how GOP Chair Jennifer Carnahan and DFL head Ken Martin view the election from their own campaigns to continue to lead their parties.
The DFL will be in control of the Minnesota House. What does that mean for the environment?
Exactly what policies the DFL may be able to send to Walz’s desk with a new House majority is far from clear. But Tuesday’s election results may be as much about what won’t get passed by the Legislature as what will get through.
Suburban voters didn’t just elect Democrats to Congress and the Minnesota Legislature — they drove DFL victories statewide
In both the governor and attorney general race, suburban voters put DFLers over the top.
The morning after the morning after: What we learned from the 2018 election
Five things we know — or think we know — in the wake of Tuesday’s voting.
Where the DFL made its gains to take control of the Minnesota House
Democrats needed to win 11 seats from the GOP to take control of the House. They took 18.
Walz to be next governor; Ellison wins contentious AG race; DFL takes Minnesota House
Meanwhile, voters in Minnesota’s most populous county elect two political newcomers over longtime incumbents, Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek and County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin.
The 15 Minnesota House races (and one Senate race) to watch in 2018
A Senate special election puts both chambers in play this year.
What’s at stake in Tuesday’s election? When it comes to state offices, pretty much everything
Tuesday’s voting will conclude a wild campaign season for state offices, one that featured intense battles for the Legislature and the governor’s office — and an especially contentious Minnesota attorney general’s race.
When it comes to the Minnesota governor’s race, voters can’t say they don’t have a real choice
Whether it’s taxes, guns, immigration, education or the state budget, DFL candidate Tim Walz and GOP nominee Jeff Johnson offer starkly different views on where they want to lead the state if elected.
As DFL groups spend big on the guv race, Republicans dig in on the Minnesota House
The spending patterns may represent each party’s view of their best shot for control of government.
Of attacks and undecideds: Where the Minnesota attorney general’s race stands
The campaign has defined the political cliché of “slugfest,” with Wardlow and Ellison each offering a steady stream of attacks against each other.
This sucks: U of M researchers hope to turn the ‘salmon cannon’ into a carp vacuum
For the U team, the technology brings more than flash; it has serious potential advantages over typical carp removal methods around Minnesota, which Bajer said can be time and labor intensive.
In final days of Minnesota governor’s race, a focus on three issues: health care, health care and health care
Thanks to polling — and their own conversations with voters throughout the state — Jeff Johnson and Tim Walz are well aware that health care is the top issue on voters’ minds. And nothing else is all that close.
Minnesota’s buffer law is likely to change — no matter who wins the governor’s race
With Gov. Mark Dayton leaving office, the buffer law has become one of the top natural resource issues in the governor’s race between Republican Jeff Johnson and DFLer Tim Walz.
Minnessippi? Calisota? How Minnesota stacks up against the states our guv candidates fear the most
Republican Jeff Johnson says Minnesota will become California if DFLer Tim Walz is elected. If the opposite happens, Walz threatens Mississippi.
Pictures, passions and podium fights: behind the scenes at a long night of candidate debates
The debates themselves would be familiar to anyone who has seen the candidates before — with one exception: the verbal free-for-all between Minnesota attorney general candidates Doug Wardlow and Keith Ellison.
Green greens? Ahead of push for guarantees, Minnesota golf courses look to shed image as water wasters
A group wants the state to create a new category for prioritizing access to water — while touting the environmental positives of golf course, or as they bill them: “your communities’ largest rain garden.”
Political ad spending tops $71 million in Minnesota
This is the first year that political advertising can be quantified across radio, broadcast and cable television without visiting individual stations.
Are political firings business as usual in the Minnesota attorney general’s office?
University of Minnesota law professor Prentiss Cox said the duty of staffers in the Minnesota attorney general’s office is to the state and public, not to a party or the person holding the office.