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REPUBLIC INSIDER Smart move, Stephanie
If you're a reader of The Daily Republic, you may know I wrote a column recently in which I advised Stephanie Herseth Sandlin to either forgo next year's Senate race in order to fulfill her expresse...
Posted on 5/13/13 at 8:40 AM
STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Coleman out of 2014 campaigns
By Don Davis Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman will not run for office in 2014, meaning there will be no rematch with Al Franken that many Republicans wanted. In a series of Tweets late Thursday, Colema...
Posted on 3/7/13 at 11:30 PM
NEW PLATEAUS In the Not-Now
What does it say about Americans that the public is already starting to talk about candidates for president for 2016? Eckhart Tolle wrote in his book The Power of Now that mankind is threatened by ou...
Posted on 2/18/13 at 11:27 AM
THE GAY AGENDA Contents may have settled
The past three months I've really struggled to come up with content, even though I still come up with great titles. Part of the problem was/is that our nation really needs to figure out how to keep gu...
Posted on 2/3/13 at 4:11 PM
CUTE 'N' COMFY Election 2012: getting informed, caring about politics
I voted for my first time this year, and I'm proud to say I was an informed voter. For the first time in my life, I've cared about politics. My professor Deneen Gilmour is to thank. She was the one th...
Posted on 11/7/12 at 9:56 PM
Dayton to join ‘Road to Progress’ bus tour 
ST. PAUL – Gov. Mark Dayton and Democratic leaders will tour the state in the run-up to Election Day on a bus tour to rally Minnesotans to vote.
The tour will kick off Thursday with a news conference on the steps of the state Capitol.
October 30, 2012
Political text messages continue to irk North Dakota cellphone users
FARGO – Text messages targeting U.S. Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp continued to pop up on North Dakotans’ cellphones over the weekend, and for those annoyed by the unsolicited messages, the federal government may be their only hope for an end to the tactic.
By Mike Nowatzki , October 29, 2012
More than 2,000 vote early in Cass
FARGO – Thousands of people cast their ballots here Monday as polls opened in the city’s two early voting locations.
October 29, 2012
Minn. poll: Fight over ban on gay marriage in dead heat
MINNEAPOLIS – The fight over a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Minnesota is in a statistical dead heat, according to results from the latest Star Tribune Minnesota Poll published Sunday.
October 28, 2012
Poll: Presidential race tightens in Minnesota; Obama maintains slight lead
MINNEAPOLIS – With Election Day more than a week away, a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll shows the presidential race is tightening in the state, with President Barack Obama holding just a slight edge over his Republican rival Mitt Romney.
October 28, 2012
Bills, Klobuchar offer very different approaches to fixing federal budget
ST. PAUL – Kurt Bills dumped several books on a table in his U.S. Senate campaign office, declaring they were his plan to fix the federal budget.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , October 27, 2012
Inquiries prompt Jaeger to clarify election rules
Letter from Democrats asks about rules for poll challengers and checkersFARGO – In yet another sign of North Dakota’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race, the Secretary of State’s Office is fielding questions from party officials about the process for having poll challengers and poll checkers at voting sites.
By Mike Nowatzki , October 27, 2012
Thousands expected to vote early in Cass and Clay counties
FARGO – Election Day is still more than a week away, but thousands of residents in Cass and Clay counties have already cast their ballots.
Both counties began offering absentee voting, with participants either mailing a ballot in or filling out a ballot at the county auditor’s office, in late September.
By Ryan Johnson , October 27, 2012
Being salesperson is part of Klobuchar’s job
STACY, Minn. – Amy Klobuchar’s voice rose as she delivered an impassioned plea – especially to high school girls – to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , October 27, 2012
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Bills’ experience with federal government forms his message
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Federal government requirements on a home day care center his wife runs illustrate why Kurt Bills wants to be a U.S. senator.
Bills and his wife, Cindy, spend 80 hours preparing their income tax returns.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , October 27, 2012
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Minnesota election notebook: Supreme Court challengers face uphill climb
ST. PAUL – Challengers to Minnesota Supreme Court justices say their job is tough.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , October 26, 2012
Cravaack reveals son’s autism as ties probed
ST. PAUL – Republican Rep. Chip Cravaack is defending his family’s move out of state last year by disclosing that his older son has autism.
October 26, 2012
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ELECTION NOTEBOOK: GOP Senate candidate Bills airs first TV ad
ST. PAUL – Kurt Bills’ first television commercial of his U.S. Senate campaign attacks Sen. Amy Klobuchar with allegations she says are false.
The 30-second commercial claims that as Hennepin County attorney, Klobuchar ignored evidence against Tom Petters, who later was prosecuted in a scheme to bilk investors.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , October 25, 2012
Election notebook: Libertarian presidential candidate against marriage amendment
ST. PAUL – The Libertarian Party presidential candidate opposes a proposed Minnesota constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , October 23, 2012
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Minnesota. GOP says it didn’t endorse judge candidates
ST. PAUL – Minnesota’s Republican Party chairman wants to make sure everyone understands that his party has not endorsed judicial candidates.
“In May, our state GOP convention expressly decided not to endorse any statewide judicial candidate in 2012,” Chairman Pat Shortridge wrote in an email. “Some in our party continue to refuse to accept this fact, a source of growing frustration for us and the members of the State Executive Committee.”
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , October 22, 2012
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