A second and very reliable source, with insider knowledge of National Republican Congressional Committee efforts to get U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad to run for reelection next year, says the committee believes there’s a better than 50-50 chance Ramstad will do it.
Sure, the NRCC really wants this to happen, and perhaps they’re getting ahead of themselves, but the talks […]

Signs point to yes, U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad has left the door open to retracting his retirement announcement. If he does, it will be a blockbuster development in Minnesota politics with possible consequences in the national race for Congress. (And it would mess up several folks who were preparing to run for the open […]

I claim not the tiniest portion of the scoop on this one, but in case you read it here first, Sullivan sent out an email unequivocally removing himself from the race, citing both family and business reasons. My former colleague Mark Brunswick has the text on my former blog, the Big Question.
Sullivan may have been […]

Just spoke to Andy Luger, who confirms that he has decided not to get into the race.
“I decided very late last night, I’m not going to run for Congress,” he said. 
Lugar said he found he couldn’t disrupt his law practice on such short notice after having done the same thing two years ago to run for […]

Hubert H. (Buck) Humphrey IV, who has been widely identified as a likely frontrunner in the race for the DFL nomination for the open congressional seat in the Third District has decided not to run.
“I will verify that,” Humphrey just told me when I called him to check out the rumor.
Humphrey, grandson of a vice […]