MN US House
Which Lawmaker (and Political Party) Leaves the Biggest Twitter Footprint in Minnesota Politics?
Last month Smart Politics conducted a case study as to how one Minnesota lawmaker, Republican Representative Laura Brod, utilized the social networking site Twitter during the last legislative session. That study found the plurality of Rep. Brod’s tweets were about…
Read MoreCan the DFL Win a 6th U.S. House Seat in 2010?
As Minnesota faces the real prospect of losing its 8th U.S. House seat in the 2012 reapportionment, the DFL looks to close the current census period with a bang, by returning to its glory days of the 1990s when it…
Read MoreMichele Bachmann Appears on National Cable TV Every 9 Days
With her A-block interview on health care reform on Fox News’ Hannity program Tuesday evening, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has now equaled in 7+ months in 2009 the number of national cable television news appearances she made in all of…
Read MoreOberstar Rails Against Obama on Transportation Policy
Interspersed between his erudite historical recounting of transportation policy over the last 50 years, colorful inside-the-beltway jokes and jabs, and a vision for transportation policy for the next generation, Minnesota DFL Congressman Jim Oberstar offered some particularly harsh language for…
Read MoreMinnesota GOP U.S. House Members Notch $800,000 Fundraising Swing Against DFL Colleagues from 2007 to 2009
Riding the momentum of a Democratic tsunami in 2006, Minnesota’s crop of five DFL U.S. Representatives posted a monumental fundaising effort through the first two quarters of 2007 – outraising the state’s three GOP Representatives by over $750,000. Now, two…
Read MoreEconomic Downturn Scarcely Slowing Political Contributions to Minnesota’s U.S. House Delegation
The economic recession of the past year, and its accompanying significant rise in unemployment, rise in home foreclosures and delinquency rates, and drop in the stock market, has not derailed Minnesota’s U.S. House delegation from raising money like the recession…
Read MoreCongressman Oberstar to Speak at Humphrey Institute Wednesday
Minnesota’s senior member of its U.S. House delegation, 18-term Representative Jim Oberstar will speak on transportation policy at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs on Wednesday morning. The event is cosponsored by Institute’s Center for the…
Read MoreWhy Campaign Contributions by Homemakers to MN U.S. Representatives Are Not Part of a ‘Shell Game’
One of the notable findings from yesterday’s Smart Politics research that documented the occupational profile of those individuals giving large donations to the campaigns of Minnesota’s U.S. Representatives was that nearly 95 percent of homemakers contributed to the three Republican…
Read MoreWho Gives? An Occupational Profile of Large Donor Contributions to the MN US House Delegation
Minnesota’s eight-member U.S. House delegation raised more than $1.6 million last quarter, according to the latest Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports. Large donor individual donations accounted for about half of that total, or approximately $800,000. So, who are these private…
Read MoreBachmann Outraises McCollum in 4th CD; Nearly Outraises Ellison in 5th CD
A Smart Politics analysis of FEC data for the 2nd Quarter of 2009 finds 6th District Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann raised more individual itemized contributions in the home districts of two of her fellow DFL colleagues, and nearly as much…
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