Speculation surrounds the probable impact of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision enabling corporations to spend money on express advocacy. Will it naturally favor Republicans? Will it mean more money in politics and therefore costlier campaigns? Perhaps, but other scenarios are also possible.
Steve Perry and I are posting via Twitter from today's Republican convention in St. Paul, and we'll have pics, vids and analysis afterward.
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This afternoon’s edition of the PIM Weekly Report will contain our first, decidedly premature handicapping of the 2010 Minnesota governor’s race. (If you’re not a subscriber, hey, that can be fixed.)
For the skimmers in the house, the tenor of the messaging from DFL and GOP campaigns so far could perhaps be encapsulated this way.
DFL: "Change [...]
As a followup to last Friday’s PIM post on top donors to Minnesota’s House Democrats and Republicans, here are lists of last year’s top 5 individual and PAC givers to the respective state party organizations–the Minnesota DFL State Central Committee and the Republican Party of Minnesota.
(Note: In this case, unlike that of the House party [...]
