Archive for October 2008
Humphrey Institute Candidate Forums: Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District
The Center for the Study of Politics and Governance and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly are cosponsoring a series of public forums with the major party candidates for Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District to foster informed and substantive discussion of…
Read MoreElection Profile: Wisconsin’s 5th Congressional District (2008)
Smart Politics is running a series of election profiles of all the Upper Midwestern U.S. Senate and U.S. House races leading up to the November 4th elections. The series will culminate with Smart Politics’ official projections. The thirteenth profile in…
Read MoreLive Blog: Dean Barkley on Political Polarization
12:07 p.m. Dean Barkley, founder of the Independence Party, is giving a speech this afternoon at the Humphrey Institute entitled, “The Polarization of Our Political Parties.” Barkley has polled as high as 19 percent during this past week in the…
Read MoreElection Profile: Wisconsin’s 4th Congressional District (2008)
Smart Politics is running a series of election profiles of all the Upper Midwestern U.S. Senate and U.S. House races leading up to the November 4th elections. The series will culminate with Smart Politics’ official projections. The twelfth profile in…
Read MoreHHH / MPR News Poll – Obama Propelled by Financial Crisis and VP Debate
From the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance press release: “According to two Minnesota Public Radio News and Humphrey Institute polls of likely Minnesota voters, the extraordinary financial crisis and the resulting congressional response along with the Vice…
Read MoreElection Profile: Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District (2008)
Smart Politics is running a series of election profiles of all the Upper Midwestern U.S. Senate and U.S. House races leading up to the November 4th elections. The series will culminate with Smart Politics’ official projections. The eleventh profile in…
Read MoreBias or Accuracy in the Star Tribune’s Minnesota Poll?
This weekend’s polling numbers by the Star Tribune’s Minnesota Poll that found Barack Obama up by 18 points over John McCain and Al Franken up by 9 points over Norm Coleman turned many heads in the Gopher State, and received…
Read MoreElection Profile: Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District (2008)
Smart Politics is running a series of election profiles of all the Upper Midwestern U.S. Senate and U.S. House races leading up to the November 4th elections. The series will culminate with Smart Politics’ official projections. The tenth profile in…
Read MoreElection Profile: Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District (2008)
Smart Politics is running a series of election profiles of all the Upper Midwestern U.S. Senate and U.S. House races leading up to the November 4th elections. The series will culminate with Smart Politics’ official projections. The ninth profile in…
Read MoreElection Profile: Iowa U.S. Senate
Smart Politics is running a series of election profiles of all the Upper Midwestern U.S. Senate and U.S. House races leading up to the November 4th elections. The series will culminate with Smart Politics’ official projections. The eighth profile in…
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