[Translate] Democrats took a shellacking, and it’s partly my fault — not because I took time away from journalism to help manage a Congressional Campaign against an incumbent Republican in Minnesota’s Second Congressional District, rather because I failed to engage more people in the process. Look, both major parties have a collection of loyal supporters who consistently identify as a Democrat or a Republican, and many of them turn out reliably to vote even in non-Presidential elections. Polls prior to November revealed...
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[Translate] The FEC Quarterly reports reveal that lots of money on both sides of the Bachmann-Clark race in Minnesota’s 6th District came from outside the state. Tarryl Clark raised a nearly mind-blowing $910,000 in the second quarter. But if it’s all about money Michelle Bachmann’s evidently got the election in hand, since she raised $2,000,000 (more than double Clark) in the same period. Democrats better hope it’s not all about money in the Minnesota 6th; they certainly know the census-based redistricting...
[Translate] On Monday, I had the pleasure of sitting in on a roundtable led by three members of the Democratic Governors’ Association: Gov. Joe Manchin, WV, Chair of the DGAGov. Brian Schweitzer, MT, Vice Chair of the DGAGov. Martin O’Malley, MD, Finance Chair of the DGA While it’s always important to the DGA to capture more Governors’ seats, it’s especially important in the 2010 elections when we head into redistricting. Right now, Democrats hold a majority of Governorships, at 28, for the first time...
