Do primaries help candidates (my thoughts on the Minnesota DFL endorsing process)?

During the 2008 Presidential Primary, I was (obviously) in the camp of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).  Around February, it became obvious that U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) had no chance of catching Obama in the delegate count.  Yet, she still kept at it.  I would think that this was antithetical to the sort of [...]

2010 Minnesota Governor’s Race, considered

While I am no longer a Minnesota voter, this is a race that maintains my interest.  Indeed, I believe that the stakes are pretty high for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) next year.  If they cannot win next year, with seemingly every advantage that one could ever imagine going their way, then their chances to end [...]

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