Data & Maps
Where Trump did better than Mitt Romney in Minnesota, and where he did worse
Romney and Trump got a similar number of votes in Minnesota, but from very different parts of the state.
Mitt Romney
Eric Black Ink
How a third-party ticket could fix the GOP’s Trump problem
It’s a longshot, but one purpose for running a third slate would be to throw the presidential election into the U.S. House.
Eric Black Ink
Prominent Republican makes his case against voting for Trump
Speaking at the University of Minnesota, Peter Wehner calls Donald Trump a “toxic figure in American politics.”
Eric Black Ink
Mitt Romney goes all improvident on Donald Trump
Trump wasn’t about to take any of that improvident smack.
Eric Black Ink
The craziness of Iowa’s oh-so-important caucuses
Presidential candidates focus intensely on how to appeal to voters in Iowa, a small and not particularly typical state. Does that make sense?
Eric Black Ink
Republicans face serious barriers to holding U.S. Senate majority in 2016
Republicans entered 2014 with considerably more pick-up opportunities than the Democrats, but it will be the reverse in 2016.
Eric Black Ink
Stupid poll result and a profound and funny comment by Rudy Boschwitz
A new poll of registered voters indicates that if a presidential election was held now, Mitt Romney would beat President Obama.
D.C. Dispatches
Of Bachmann, Perry, Pawlenty and funny nicknames: new book takes on 2012 campaign
WASHINGTON — Book boils down Minnesotans’ presidential campaigns to this: Michele Bachmann was intimidated by Rick Perry, while Mitt Romney decidedly wasn’t by Tim Pawlenty.
Eric Black Ink
Romney in denial over infamous ’47 percent’ video
Mitt Romney is still trying to defend the secretly recorded remark, and to spin what he said by changing it after the fact.
Eric Black Ink
Kathleen Hall Jamieson and the ‘attack on fact’
The communications scholar says attacks on fact are not just bad for election outcomes, but also distort policy decisions.
Eric Black Ink
Do presidential campaigns matter?
Political scientist John Sides says they don’t matter, or at least not as much as we think
Cityscape
How the mortgage interest deduction hurts our cities
The tax policy encourages urban sprawl and gives breaks to those who need them least.
Eric Black Ink
Politifact says Romney’s Ohio-Jeeps falsehood was the ‘lie of the year’
But do we really need a “lie of the year” award?
Political Agenda
GOP leader Dave Thompson breaks on Republican strategies, but keeps the faith
The new state Senate assistant minority leader rejects two key pieces of the Republican’s re-election strategy.
Politics & Policy
Troubling questions about Obama’s drone warfare
Will drone warfare be the long-term legacy of the “war on terrorism”?
