Big political news tonight on KSTP TV.
The first gubernatorial political poll of the 2010 election season, matching GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty against the major officially announced (and not so officially announced) DFL candidates. The Survey USA poll asked respondents to choose between Pawlenty and the following DFL candidates:
Tom Bakk
Chris Coleman
Mark Dayton
Matt Entenza
Susan Gaertner
Margaret Kelliher
John Marty
RT [...]
by Sarah Janecek
Published: October 7, 2008
Tags: Al Franken, Andy Barr, Bill Salisbury, Cullen Sheehan, Dan Cramer, Kelly Boldener, Mary Underwood Heller, Norm Coleman, Stephanie Schriock, Tom Hauser
Last Friday at precisely 3:06 p.m., we published our PIM Weekly Report. In our lead story about the Minnesota U.S. Senate debates I wrote, "The first of three debates sponsored by Debate Minnesota, the Rochester debate will be moderated by KSTP TV’s Tom Hauser and WCCO AM’s Jack Rice.
The 90-minute format will include time for [...]
[Sarah's Update: These photos were taken early this morning, before Gustav became a major factor in RNC events.]
Sarah had a chance to get some of the first pics of the transformed Xcel Energy Center.
Tom Hauser doing a live promo of the show.
An unlikely trio at the RNC, Former DFL House Minority Leader Matt Entenza, the [...]
Just got back from the Saturday night party circuit and will write more about that, tomorrow.Cannot write more tonight, because I’m off to bed. Check out tomorrow’s line-up on Tom Hauser’s show on KSTP, tomorrow, live from the Xcel Energy Center at 10 am:SEGMENT 1: Ron Carey and Brian MelendezSEGMENT 2A: Sen. Tarryl Clark and [...]
If you have ever watched the Minnesota State Legislature on television,
you have probably witnessed an off-color comment or an amazingly
laughable one-liner only to want to witness them again. Thankfully, the
people at KSTP’s At Issue, hosted by Tom Hauser, have the best of the best At Issue clips compiled on their website from 2000 to 2008.
[...]
If you have ever watched the Minnesota State Legislature on television,
you have probably witnessed an off-color comment or an amazingly
laughable one-liner only to want to witness them again. Thankfully, the
people at KSTP’s At Issue, hosted by Tom Hauser, have the best of the best At Issue clips compiled on their website from 2000 to 2008.
[...]
The Republican convention in Rochester this past weekend was a somewhat staid and stultifying affair.
Staid because there was nary a balloon or speck of confetti at an event that, in the last few decades, has evolved into grand political pageantry. Anybody remember six years ago when Norm Coleman was first endorsed to [...]
Our local ABC affiliate, KSTP News, has struggled the past few decades,
consistently coming in third and sometimes fourth (gasp) in local
ratings.
One of the station’s repeated blunders is a series of mystifying
choices about who sits in the anchor chairs. The next chapter in the
mystery was written, yesterday, when KSTP announced that [...]
