by Bob Geiger
Published: November 5, 2008
Tags: Elections 2008, U.S. Senate recount
Minnesotans who just can’t get enough of elections will get their wish starting Nov. 19, when a state recount of the 2.9 million ballots cast in the U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and DFL challenger Al Franken starts. Mark Ritchie, Minnesota Secretary of State, outlined the ballot recount process for media
by Staff
Published: November 5, 2008
Tags: 2008 Presidential campaign, Al Franken, Elections 2008, Norm Coleman, Results, U.S. Senate
Minnesota election results pages: Secretary of State: statewide results Hennepin County: election home page / interactive map / text data Ramsey County: Whole county results Anoka County homepage CBS News New York Times CNN USA Today Minnesota Public Radio results National results and polls: FiveThirtyEight.com has been the gold standard for polling this cycle, including caveats for today’s exit polling. More about exit polls from Pollster.com CBS News [...]
by Staff
Published: November 4, 2008
Tags: 2008 MN House Campaigns, 2008 Presidential campaign, Elections 2008, U.S. Senate
As our nation’s most digitally enabled election so far gets underway, we’re checking out where to get up-to-the-minute election results once the polls close at 8 PM. We recall two years ago that the Secretary of State’s statewide results system got pretty swamped, but the county-level websites seemed to hold up all night. (The SOS site [...]
by admin
Published: November 4, 2008
Tags: Elections 2008
Technology is not only transforming the way we interact with our political candidates, but how we follow voting results. But technology, like democracy, is great only so long as it keeps working. Twitter Vote Report, a site launched last month to compile reports of wait times and problems at polling places, was mostly inaccessible from 10 [...]
by Staff
Published: October 3, 2008
Tags: Elections 2008
People gather to watch a screening of the one and only vice presidential debate between GOP candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and Democratic candidate, U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Delaware, Thursday evening at the Riverview Theater, 3800 S. 42nd Ave., in Minneapolis. So many people showed up that organizers had to turn some away. (Staff photos: [...]
by Staff
Published: June 4, 2008
Tags: Barack Obama, Elections 2008
Photos by Peter Bartz-Gallagher & Dan Feidt For reasons known only to the stars, St. Paul’s Xcel Center has become the center of the political universe this year. The Center fills slowly with Minnesotans as MSNBC airs on giant screens. When the network cuts to commercial, Obama ads appear — spliced in by the production staff. The [...]
by Staff
Published: February 5, 2008
Tags: Caucuses, Elections 2008, Minnesota, MN
Secretary of State results: All MN Party Results, Index of all Presidential Preference Results Text-formatted results (good for Excel) GOP Results, DFL Results, Independence Results, Constitution Results. For media coverage and reactions, see the Politics in Minnesota Morning Report for February 6, 2008. For our special caucus edition of the Weekly Report, see the end of February 5th’s Morning [...]
by Sarah Janecek
Published: September 21, 2007
Tags: Andy Luger, Brian Sullivan, Buck Humphrey, David Hann, DJ Leary, Elections 2008, Erik Paulsen, Geoff Michel, Jeff Johnson, Jim Ramstad, Joyce Peppin, Melissa Hortman, MN-3, Steve Kelley, Steve Simon, Terri Bonoff, Tom Kelly, Warren Limmer
The 3rd: Ramstad Retires In re U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-MN 3) and his retirement announcement this week, D.J. Leary, one of Politics In Minnesota’s founders and editors (now retired) perfectly captured our thoughts and thus we’ll repeat verbatim his letter published this week in the Star Tribune: One of the tiny slivers of civility remaining in American politics is leaving with U.S. [...]
