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.
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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.
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.”
Mitt Romney goes all improvident on Donald Trump
Trump wasn’t about to take any of that improvident smack.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do presidential campaigns matter?
Political scientist John Sides says they don’t matter, or at least not as much as we think
How the mortgage interest deduction hurts our cities
The tax policy encourages urban sprawl and gives breaks to those who need them least.
Politifact says Romney’s Ohio-Jeeps falsehood was the ‘lie of the year’
But do we really need a “lie of the year” award?
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.
Troubling questions about Obama’s drone warfare
Will drone warfare be the long-term legacy of the “war on terrorism”?
How the Supreme Court has come to play a policymaking role
Two landmark decisions — Roe v. Wade and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission — illustrate the lack of real judicial modesty.
2012 election results represent a historic victory for women’s health
This election was a rejection of the anti-women’s health agenda that some in Congress have pursued for the last two years and that Mitt Romney would have continued.
Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Vin Weber assess the vote
A former state House speaker and an ex-congressman analyzed their parties’ standing with voters.
In Egypt, Obama win elicits feeling of relief
Egyptians say Obama has failed to deliver on his promises of peace. But they also say Romney would have been worse.
PPP Polling, Minnesota editorial pages nail state election
Who says pollsters are wrong and newspaper editorial pages have no effect?
