Mitt Romney

Josh Romney thinks Minn. might go red today [VIDEO]

The past few days, headlining national Republicans have shown Minnesota some love, both sparking and responding to rumors (and polls, though at this point, who really knows the difference) that Romney's gaining on Obama inside our long-blue borders.On Sunday, we had Paul Ryan, who was followed yeste ... More >>

Fox News turns to Minnesota Majority, pro-voter ID group, for "objective" analysis [VIDEO]

Yesterday morning, Fox News decided to check in with a local political expert for some analysis of the hot races here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.You might think they'd turn to a political science professor, or perhaps one of our esteemed political scribes. But no. They turned to Minnesota Majority' ... More >>

Banks caught swindling red-handed

Country club Sopranos get kid-glove treatment for high crimes

The 10 Most Corrupt Tax Loopholes

If Mitt Romney won't tell you which ones need to be closed, we will

Obama up 7 in Minnesota, Klobuchar up 19, says new poll

SEE ALSO:-- Romney has halved Obama's Minnesota lead since May, says new SurveyUSA poll-- Pro-Romney group will air misleading 'Janesville' ad in Minnesota [VIDEO]Barack Obama has a comfortable, if not insurmountable lead over Mitt Romney in Minnesota, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey ... More >>

Conservatives stir the pot again

Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann open their mouths

Gonzo Guide to the Republican National Convention

From supporters to protesters to strippers, Miami will be ready

Tim Pawlenty's vice presidential stock spikes on Intrade

SEE ALSO: Tim Pawlenty undergoing "intensive review" as Romney's possible VP choiceMitt Romney has reportedly already chosen a running mate, and political observers increasingly believe Tim Pawlenty may be his pick.Yesterday, Pawlenty's vice presidential stock on Intrade, an Irish betting site that ... More >>

Vin Weber, senior Romney adviser, under fire for controversial Ukraine lobbying

Former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber has had quite the career as a "revolving-door" D.C. lobbyist. But as one of Mitt Romney senior foreign-policy advisers, he's now under scrutiny for being a registered lobbyist for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine.The ECFMU was founded in January by a se ... More >>

Obama's Minnesota visit comes in wake of dismal jobs report

If it really is all about the economy, stupid, then President Obama's reelection prospects are more precarious this morning than they were yesterday. Obama is in the Twin Cities today. He'll give a speech at Honeywell's Golden Valley facility this morning before heading downtown for a string of fund ... More >>

Ron Paul actually won Minnesota's GOP presidential caucus, it turns out

Remember all that stuff you read about Rick Santorum winning Minnesota's February Republican presidential caucus? Forget you ever saw it. Because last weekend, the Republican votes that matter the most were cast at Minnesota's district conventions, and Ron Paul won the majority of them.Paul won 20 o ... More >>

Keith Ellison retweets message calling Mitt Romney "douchebag," claims it was accident

Keith Ellison finds himself in hot water with conservatives after retweeting an offensive message from his official Twitter account. Wednesday, Ellison took to Twitter to ask his followers who uttered the following quote: "... even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work." The a ... More >>

Mitt Romney is Tim Pawlenty's sugar daddy

About two months after he exited the Republican presidential race, Pawlenty for President announced it had outstanding debts of about $454,000.Those debts are now paid off, thanks in large part to Pawlenty's sugar daddy and the presumptive 2012 GOP presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. USA Today report ... More >>

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Ron Paul glitterbombed at Minneapolis Convention Center [VIDEO]

There's something in the air the night before the caucus. ​As Republican candidates descended on our fair state for today's caucus, the glitter was inevitably not far behind. At a campaign rally in downtown Minneapolis last night, Congressman Ron Paul became the latest conservative presidential c ... More >>

Rick Santorum goes for "big win in Minn" according to Drudge

​Minnesota is the lead headline on the Drudge Report today, which cheekily says Rick Santorum is looking for a "big win in Minn" at today's caucus.The report links to a story with better-than-expected poll numbers for Santorum, including a projected 33% to 24% lead over Romney in Minnesota.

Santorum splatters Romney, Gingrich in new Minnesota ad [VIDEO]

​After months of playing relatively nice with his fellow GOP presidential contenders, Rick Santorum's new Minnesota ad splatters Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.With a shit-eating smirk on his face, Romney is shown standing in front of a sinister Gingrich. Obama is in front of both of the GOP frontr ... More >>

Poll: Minnesota is Gingrich territory

Somehow, Newt is more popular than Romney even with MN women.​Minnesota is Newt Gingrich territory. That's the conclusion emerging from a new Public Policy Polling poll of likely Republican voters in the state.The poll, conducted last weekend, just over two weeks ahead of the February 7 Minnesota ... More >>

The Real Rybak: A reporter's notebook in Iowa [VIDEO]

​In this week's cover story, we followed Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak around for several weeks to document the day-to-day life of a city politician marking his tenth year in office. Along the way, we traveled to Des Moines, Iowa, ahead of the January 3 caucus to witness Rybak in his role as v ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty rejected by Fox News for support of Mitt Romney

Tim Pawlenty, Roger Ailes: Not seeing eye to... jowls.​Tim Pawlenty wanted to be the latest in a slew of former, current, and future Republican presidential candidates to join the crew as an analyst at Fox News. But there was a complication. Pawlenty had already decided to throw his support behind ... More >>

Michele Bachmann ignored during, after Republican debate

Michele Bachmann debated, but did anyone listen?​Breathe deep. It looks like it might all be passing now.At last night's Republican presidential debate, Michele Bachmann, once a centerpiece of the campaign and media darling, finally started receding from front-and-center and blending into the curt ... More >>

Bachmann running fourth in New Hampshire

Romney has three and a half times the support of Bachmann in New Hampshire.​Take a deep breath, everyone. Michele Bachmann's wave of momentum seems to have crested, if not collapsed altogether. According to a just-released poll by the New Hampshire Journal, Ol' Crazy Eyes is running fourth in that ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty easy favorite in National Association of Evangelicals poll

Tim and Mary Pawlenty on the Christian Broadcasting Network earlier this year.​All his tack-to-the-hard right rhetoric with right wing Christian TV and radio shows is paying off. In the battle for God - or a conservative evangelical God anyway -- Tim Pawlenty appears to have the upper hand. L ... More >>

Bachmann surges into second place

​Michele Bachmann left Tim Pawlenty in the dust in the wake of the New Hampshire Republican debate on Monday, not among Republicans in the Granite State, but also nationally, if you believe the polls. She's vaulted into second place behind Mitt Romney in both cases.

Pawlenty banks on voters forgetting the Obamneycare wimp-out

Team Pawlenty says we'll all forget why Mitt Romney was smiling Monday night.​Tim Pawlenty branded his presidential campaign, "Tell The Truth." He titled his book, "Courage To Stand." And then he wimped out in the Republican debate when offered a chance to confront Mitt Romney about "Obamneyca ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty: Twitter Tough Guy

The Courage To Stand -- on Twitter.​Tim Pawlenty didn't have the "Courage To Stand" against Mitt Romney and Obamneycare during the Republican debate, and apparently he knows it. So instead of just waiting to let his humiliatingly weak moment on CNN blow over, like his campaign spokesman said he w ... More >>

How Pawlenty did at last night's Republican debate

Pawlenty had a chance to face down Romney on Obamneycare, and he turned away.​Tim Pawlenty showed everyone Monday night during the Republican debate on CNN why Bill O'Reilly pegged him as a vanilla ice cream salesman. Instead of getting in Mitt Romney's face and smacking him around with the m ... More >>

Bachmann keeps Elvis Christmas music on her iPod, and other CNN debate weirdness

All seven Republicans, on the right.​The Republican "debate" on CNN last night wasn't really a debate at all, it was a two-hour press conference in which seven candidates took turns trashing President Obama. No one expected anything different, really. All seven of them just wanted to cram int ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann will debate in New Hampshire

So friendly looking.​Will he call her a "pain in the ass" and threaten to "rip her lungs out" in person? Will she remember to look into the right camera and get her Revolutionary War history straight? Those questions and more may be answered when Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty show up fo ... More >>

Mitt Romney vs Tim Pawlenty: The campaign videos

And the Oscar goes to ...​When it comes to presidential campaign videos, Mitt Romney compares to Tim Pawlenty the way CSPAN compares to Fox News. With Mitt, you get a rich, boring white Republican guy with great hair, droning into the camera about how awful Barack Obama is. Why so serious, M ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty picks Britney, Bush artist for official portrait

Can't we just do a paint-by-numbers version of this? That would be cheap.​Rossin is an Atlanta portrait artist that produces quality work, at a reasonable price. That probably appealed to the skinflint in Tim Pawlenty when he settled on Ross R. Rossin as the guy to paint his official portrait ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty's political fundraising trounced by Mitt Romney

Can T-Paw bring in enough dough to be anything more than just another ex-governor?​Tim Pawlenty's Political Action Committee, Freedom First is reporting today that it raised $723,501 in the second quarter of this year, raising its yearly total to about $1.3 million.It sounds like a lot of mone ... More >>

Washington Post rates Tim Pawlenty a "most influential" Republican

T-Paw recently raised cash and his profile in Tennessee​He dropped one position, from 4th to 5th, but Tim Pawlenty is still ranked by the Washington Post as one of the Top 10 most influential Republicans. And among GOPers jockeying for 2012, the Post says he and Mitt Romney lead the pack, "dol ... More >>

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney together in April

Teabaggers take note: There's going to be flood of red-meat Rublicanism in Minnesota come springtime.

Pawlenty comes up woefully short in presidential poll

Mitt Romney and Bobby Jindal are favorites among conservative activists, according to a new CNN poll.

Ouch: Pawlenty takes last in latest GOP 2012 poll

There's a new poll out from Rasmussen Reports on 2012 GOP candidates and Gov. Tim Pawlenty came in at a depressingly low 4 percent of the vote.

McCain VP: It's Pawlenty!

Pawlenty gets bad news, Powell ringing endorsement in new Zogby poll

VP Pawlenty Meter: 10 things you didn't know about T-Paw, and three things you did

VP Pawlenty Meter: insiders picking Romney as Gov. criticizes McCain's bridge blame

Exit Polls: Mitt, Huck hanging in?

It's McCain in the North, Huckabee in the South

Hispanics put McCain over the top

The Armchair Pundit: Campaign Death Watch

Exit Polls: Romney Rocking, Rudy Wretched

And Romney makes three

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