Violinist andObama campaign volunteer Linda Plaut arrived at 5:30 this morning at Gilbert Linkous Elementary School, a K-5 public school in Blacksburg, Va., home of Virginia Tech (short for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University).
(For the record,Plaut is the stepmother of my girlfriend, Julie Plaut, who interviewed her stepmom this afternoon and relayed the results [...]
A study in contrasts.
Right at 10 p.m. at tonight’s Republican Party election celebration at Bloomington’s Sheraton Hotel, GOP Chairman Ron Carey and Gov. Tim Pawlenty got a roomful of Republicans rocking.
"We’ve got a lot to be thankful for tonight," Carey told the crowd, which had already been shaken out of its earlier doldrums by [...]
Are you like me today, sitting on the edge of my seat, fingers and eyes poised to pounce on any and all information about the presidential and other elections? Well, those of us going crazy with anticipation about who’s going to win what just about everyone agrees is the most important election in many years [...]
Are you like me today, sitting on the edge of my seat, fingers and eyes poised to pounce on any and all information about the presidential and other elections? Well, those of us going crazy with anticipation about who’s going to win what just about everyone agrees is the most important election in many years [...]
So, Thursday evening about 9:15, as John McCain was starting his acceptance speech, my brother-in-law, Randy, and I headed into the LoTo bar in St. Paul’s Lowertown neighborhood just off downtown, about eight blocks from the Xcel. And a bunch of crazy-seeming women were screaming and cheering and jumping up and down on their seats [...]
Around 2 p.m. Monday, writer Betsy Sundquist reported from 5th and Jackson, on the edge of Mears Park about eight blockseast of theXcel Center, that protesters are breaking windows with rocks and bricks and throwing tear gas.
A police officer who would not give his name said, "People are getting hurt, and it’s just the beginning."
As [...]
Sunday night, at their beautiful riverfront place in Minneapolis, Sam and Sylvia Kaplan, Minnesota’s political power couple, hosted a cocktail party billed as a bi-partisan welcome to politicians and journalists in town for the RNC.
The Kaplans’ airy, 10,000-square-foot house was filled with folks wanting to be in a festive mood, but having a hard time
No, Tim Pawlenty did not get the vice presidential nod from the McCain campaign.
But there’s still a Minnesota connection in McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his VP.
Palin’s new director of communications and press secretary, Bill McAllister, spent a chunk of his career in Minnesota, including a stint at our own Saint [...]
Tim Pawlenty gives a good speech.
And he did so again on the early side of Saturday morning in Rochester to a not-quite-filled convention hall to a half-asleep audience of state Republican Party delegates and officials mostly awakened by the second-term GOP governor’s talk filled with encouragement, hope and optimism.
Introduced as the
