Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has joined ranks with other progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to blast President Barack Obama’s nomination of Antonio Weiss as the Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance–a big money banker and one of Obama’s top campaign bundlers.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Cycle,” Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) got out in front of his Democratic colleagues and said he would support former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president, assuming she runs for the 2016 Democratic Party
Unlike his predecessor, left-wing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will not commit to rejecting a bill that would allow non-citizens to vote in city elections. In January, City Council member Council Daniel Dromm will reportedly introduce legislation that would
Conservative activist James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas is out with a new video showing Democratic campaign workers appearing to condone and assist an individual posing as an illegal immigrant to vote in North Carolina. In the video, a woman pretending to
“Could control of the Senate in 2014 be decided by illegal votes cast by non-citizens?” That is the question posed by political scientists Jesse Richman and David Earnest, who answer in a forthcoming article in the journal Electoral Studies: “Most
An upcoming study to be published in the publication Electoral Studies has its authors positing the question “Could non-citizens decide the November election?” Writing in the Washington Post, Old Dominion University political science professors Jesse Richman and David Earnest preview
Yesterday, Breitbart News reported on a new KSTP/SurveyUSA poll that has Democrat Al Franken leading Republican challenger Mike McFadden 53 to 38 percent. We later updated with a statement from the McFadden campaign. Additionally, subsequent research of our own casts further doubt on
Update: The McFadden campaign has offered the following response to the survey. From Tom Erickson, McFadden for Senate spokesman, “If the guys at SurveyUSA really think that Democrat turnout in Minnesota will be higher than 2008 or 2012, then we’d like whatever
In a recent ad, a jean clad Sen. Al Franken stands by a Minnesota corn field explaining that he worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a farm bill in spite of the congressional gridlock in the state. But to
The Powerline blog points out that even more or less friendly journalists were under whelmed by Democrat Al Franken’s performance in his first head-to-head debate with his Republican challenger businessman Mike McFadden. Seems like @MikeforMN had his coffee this morning. @AlFranken
U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., denied a debate request from the Minnesota Student Association to debate at the University of Minnesota. According to a report, the invitation was accompanied by “a heavy push on social media, prompting student leaders to question
According to University of Minnesota political scientist Larry Jacobs, “Al Franken’s gonna have a fight on his hands. I don’t think there’s any doubt about that.” Jacobs is also director of the school’s Center for the Study of Politics and Governance.
Fresh off his primary win and now facing off against Democrat Al Franken, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike McFadden is calling for both Barack Obama and Congress to return to Washington to deal with the ongoing immigration crisis, as well
Saturday during the Weekly Republican address, the challenger to Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), Minnesota republican Mike McFadden said, “No matter where I go, from Winona to Warroad, people tell me the same thing: ‘We are heading in the wrong direction.’”
Senator Al Franken has declined a Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) invite to debate both his Republican and Independence Party opponents at the Minnesota State Fair. The debates had enjoyed a 20 year MRP tradition. Franken’s campaign gave no explanation. Perhaps this
On ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) was at a loss when asked for what a comedian could mock him. Franken said, “When I would make fun of politicians, only because they were screwing up in some way, and
Monday, political analyst Dick Morris joined NewsMax TV to discuss the GOP’s chances to win back control of the U.S. Senate in the 2014 mid-term elections. Morris pointed out that 13 currently held democratic seats are now in play. The
Former Saturday Night Live star Amy Poehler is becoming one of Hollywood’s more vocal Democratic supporters. Poehler lent her voice to the battle to promote the flailing, failing ObamaCare reform, and she uses her Parks and Recreation gig to worship at
Since his narrow election to the Senate in 2009, Sen. Al Franken has labored to create a new image for himself as a studious wonk. But it looks like he still retains the racy sense of humor that originally landed
Senator Al Franken (D-MN) is having a bit of a freak out out over Sarah Palin’s endorsement on Thursday of state senator Julianne Ortman, the leading candidate to win the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in Minnesota and
An unfortunate thing is occurring in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota. Despite the party’s convention being 54 days away, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) in Washington, D.C. is playing favorites and heavily assisting one of
Framing the potential Senate contest as the “The Clown vs. The Mama Grizzly,” former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin endorsed Minnesota State Senator Julianne Ortman Thursday in her bid to get the GOP nomination and unseat Sen. Al Franken (D-MN). The
Support appears to be crumbling among constituents of Senator Al Franken (D-MN) and Minnesota Democratic Governor Mark Dayton, according to new poll data posted from Public Opinion Strategies this week that the Minnesota GOP is touting. The statewide survey of 600
A new study finds that the Obamacare tax on medical devices killed 33,000 jobs. The study, conducted by the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), said the Obamacare tax slashed 14,000 industry worker jobs and quashed the hiring of 19,000 more.
Politicians agree upon little in the Age of Obama, but bipartisan concerns greeted the proposed $45 billion merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The matter should intensify in the coming weeks as hearings flesh out the details behind the plan.
Minnesota Senate Democrats Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar, along with others from their party, will answer to their constituents and leaders in the medical device industry for voting against the repeal of ObamaCare’s medical device tax in the continuing resolution battle
The fingerprint sensor on the new iPhone 5S, which was released on Friday to much fanfare, is causing privacy concerns among lawmakers in light of revelations that the National Security Agency has collected information from nearly all of the country’s
On Wednesday, MN businessman Mike McFadden announced he would challenge first-term Sen. Al Franken in next year’s midterm elections. McFadden released a three-minute video introducing himself to voters. A serious challenge to Franken expands the Senate map next year, giving
Radio Equalizer: GERALDO RIVERA (04 Jan 2013) (regarding the last time he saw Al Gore): [Gore and Al Franken] were in the [Fox News] building. They were screening a movie. They may have been screening, actually, Al Gore’s climate-change movie.
Many powerful Democrats, even some of the most liberal among them, are supporting what amounts to a dismantling of President Obama’s signature health care law. Using “Republican” language to make their case, these Democrats are attempting to repeal some of
Former Minnesota Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty on Thursday stepped down as co-chair of Mitt Romney’s campaign to become the CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable, one of K Street’s most prestigious jobs in Washington, D.C. Romney said Pawlenty
Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood and NARAL/Pro-Choice America’s president Nancy Keenan, together with Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University flunky Barack Obama drags around to help legitimize the contraceptive mandate, are all slated to be guest speakers at the DNC
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Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) spoke at an event for first responders in Minnesota and reflected on the past ten years since the September 11th attacks on America.
On his national radio show, Ed Schultz had some choice words for Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) his former Air America colleague.
Last weekend Americans For Prosperity once again held its RightOnLine conference, this year in beautiful downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Consequently, the Atlantic Magazine decided to do a report on what went on at RightOnLine. Unfortunately, the whole thing was filled with
Minnesota electing Al Franken to the Senate is making a lot more sense now.
First, some background. Two years ago, on a cloudy and cold Saturday morning, I met a guy in a K-Mart parking lot to hand him the cash in exchange for the goods. We nervously approached each other, after he arrived
One year ago today, on January 21, the Supreme Court released its landmark decision in Citizens United v. FEC. The decision corrected an anomaly in campaign finance law, and in doing so was a tremendous victory for the First Amendment