Since the last big election, few news stories have concentrated on who’s needed to elect people to office these days: people who don’t bother voting — the people who believe their lives are so disconnected from public policy, that the effort isn’t worth their time.
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The fact that almost every reasonable person who listens to an ad in support of an Arkansas Republican congressman’s re-election thinks it’s fake offers at least a glimpse of hope that there are still people who realize the problem with it.
It’s not fake. Read more →
There’s a growing trend — particularly among smaller newspapers — that’s doing nothing to improve the political climate. The newspapers are charging to have a letter to the editor printed in the local paper and posted online. Read more →
The New York Times is backing away — sort of — from its weekend poll that showed a sudden swing to Republican Pete Stauber in Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District. Read more →
North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, who is in a close re-election fight with Rep. Kevin Cramer, was put on the defensive today while trying to go on the offensive over the sexual assaults of women. Read more →
Jason Lewis, the 2nd District congressman, is in a close race with DFLer Angie Craig in next month’s election. So it seems unusual that Lewis got op-ed space in Monday’s Star Tribune — and Tom Emmer got similar space today — to use to campaign against the opposition if they so choose. Read more →
Pete Stauber, the Republican candidate for the 8th District congressional seat, picked up a big endorsement when the Duluth News Tribune editorial board endorsed him in the apparent close race with DFLer Joe Radinovich. The seat is being vacated by congressman Rick Nolan, a DFLer.
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Fox News is still providing online coverage of the rallies, but Politico claims the White House is concerned that the president is losing an important megaphone.
Scott Kelly has a perspective that few others have on the subject on an out-of-control political discourse. His sister-in-law, Gabby Giffords, was shot in the head just a week into her third term in Congress at the same venue in Tucson in which a federal judge was killed. Read more →
KTTC, the Rochester TV station, has some explaining to do if it wants to restore the credibility it lost when a news anchor wore a Make America Great Again hat during a live shot at President Trump’s appearance in Rochester.
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Let’s check in on how the media is faring at the big Trump rally in Rochester. Read more →
President Trump has made his wealth a big story for his entire life. It’s the very underpinning of his popularity. Now the New York Times has published a blockbuster story about how he got rich, and it seems to be lost in the usual noise that surrounds this president.
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With an insulated life, the nation’s politicians are rarely in the uncomfortable position Sen. Jeff Flake and his handlers were put in this morning after he said he’d vote to approve the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh as a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
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According to a new poll, only 28 percent of young voters say they’ll vote in midterm elections next month. Across all demographics, a little more than half say they’ll vote, so young people are pretty much booting the chance to have significant influence on an election. Again.
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In Madison, someone called the cops because a candidate for state assembly was knocking on doors looking for votes. She was ‘suspicious’, and by ‘suspicious’, the complainant actually meant ‘black.’ Read more →
Bob Collins