Bob CollinsJust when you think all is lost, a couple of political opponents wrap up their campaigns against each other over drinks and prove that class and graciousness are not entirely extinct. Read more →
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Journalists and presidents have sparred for far longer than many of us have been alive, but for a few old-timers who still remember the Nixon administration, it was hard not to take a trip down memory lane to see how the things have changed in the category of ‘shocking’ at presidential news conferences. Read more →
Scott Simon, the NPR host, has accepted the mandate. Read more →
A minor takeaway, perhaps, but we’re impressed nonetheless by how many people think they have Governor-elect Tim Walz’s cellphone number.
They don’t, apparently, because Adrian Smith, of Rochester, is getting the congratulatory texts some Minnesotans have been sending. Read more →
Seven people who wrote in candidates swung an election for state representative in Bemidji. Read more →
One more from the campaign and election of 2018 before we move on.
We’ll have whatever John Pinter, 83, of Cedarburg, Wis., which is near nowhere, is having. Read more →
Polls are closed. So here’s the space for you — in the comments section below — to provide your own analysis as you watch the results. Or just howl at the political moon. Whatever makes you feel better after the two year marathon campaign.
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Gracie Phillips, 82, has never voted before. The mid-term elections were her last chance. She’s been battling pneumonia.+++++ Read more →
aybe it’s not such a bad thing if the people who are so turned off by political discourse stay home today, or so says one of those public radio bloggers. You know how they are. Read more →
If history is any guide, about half of Minnesotans will blow off Election Day on Tuesday. Read more →
If you want election results next Wednesday morning, you apparently won’t find them in the newspapers of one of the biggest chains in the country, and that’s just the way Gannett wants it. Read more →
In Vermont, as elsewhere, women have had a difficult time getting their voices heard. So now they’re using their bodies.
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No major newspaper endorsed Donald Trump in the election of 2016, so it’s easy to conclude that editorial endorsements don’t matter. Maybe. Maybe not.
Still, it’s interesting to note that the Star Tribune editorial board took a pass today on the state’s attorney general race, at least confirming that voters have seen better choices in its candidates over the years than Keith Ellison and Doug Wardlow. Read more →
Not since Paul Wellstone, have we seen an ad that does so much to humanize a candidate, as the one Amy Klobuchar issued today with congressional candidate Dean Phillips.
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Cody NelsonNorth Dakotans will vote soon on Measure 3: a proposed law to legalize recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older while expunging convictions for marijuana-related crimes.
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