MN US House
Ellison Raises 90+ Percent of Q2 2009 Large Donor Individual Contributions from Outside 5th CD
In April 2009, Smart Politics reported on Keith Ellison’s unusual campaign fundraising numbers that found the 2-term DFL Congressman raising the vast majority of his large donor individual contributions from out of state. That reporting period was not an aberration….
Read MoreOberstar Raises 100 Percent of Q2 2009 Itemized Individual Contributions from Out of State
Of the many benefits that come with being a Committee Chairman and one of the longest serving members in the U.S. House, is a certain national renown that enables a U.S. Representative to more easily raise campaign funds from…
Read MoreBachmann Leads Minnesota House Delegation in Campaign Contributions by Individuals and Small Donors
Last Spring, Smart Politics explained how while the headline coming from the Federal Elections Commission Q1 2009 reports on the fundraising by Minnesota’s U.S. House delegation was that Republican Michele Bachmann outraised all of her Gopher State colleagues by nearly…
Read MoreBachmann Voting Record Is 2nd Least Supportive of Obama in U.S. House
Last month a Smart Politics analysis of the most conservative members of the U.S. House (as determined by National Journal’s annual rankings) found Representative Michele Bachmann to have received the smallest margin of victory of the 44 most conservative Republicans…
Read MoreMinnesota’s ‘Youthful’ U.S. House Delegation
A recent article at CQ Politics profiled the potential competitiveness of Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District race in 2010. That district’s Representative, freshman GOPer Erik Paulsen, is one of several dozen new faces elected to D.C. during the past two election…
Read MoreIs the Minnesota US House Delegation Voting More Conservatively?
With the DFL winning a string of 9 consecutive presidential elections, 4 out of 5 U.S. Senate contests (counting Al Franken), and netting 35 state House and 11 state Senate seats since 2002, Minnesota has been frequently characterized as an…
Read MoreMinnesota, Wisconsin Lead Nation in Largest Proportion of House Committee Leadership Posts
U.S. Representative John Kline’s (MN-02) election this week as the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and Labor further established the Gopher State’s House delegation as one of the most powerful in the nation. Minnesota now has…
Read MoreWhy Michele Bachmann’s Political Ideology Is the Boldest Among U.S. House Republicans
Continuing to serve as a lightning rod for the political left in the Gopher State, the month of June has seen Representative Michele Bachmann maintain her remarkably high profile among not only the Minnesota Congressional delegation, but also nationally…
Read MoreBachmann on the State of the GOP: “Republicans are for all practical purposes irrelevant”
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is seemingly a fixture in the state and national media these days, and in particular on WWTC 1280 AM’s Northern Alliance Radio Network. The Minnesota U.S. Representative appeared once again on Brian Ward and John Hinderaker’s “The…
Read MoreKeith Ellison Campaign Funding Data Revisited: A Response to the Congressman’s Complaint
Last Friday, Congressman Keith Ellison’s communications director Rick Jauert responded to recent data unearthed and analzyed by Smart Politics that Ellison was receiving an unusual amount of itemized individual contributions from out-of-state, both in Q1 2009 (when he had the…
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