This post relies on reporting by my Minnesota Monitor teammate Joe Bodell as well as my own.
There’s a fresh wave of discussion in Washington and Minnesota of the possibility that U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad may change his announced retirement plans and seek another term instead.
A very good source of mine has stated that […]

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Washington Post politically obsessed blogger Chris Cillizza of “The Fix,” who attempts to track every race, lists Minnesota’s Third District as the third most likely of U.S. House district to change parties in the ‘08 election (which would mean from red — Republicans have held this seat since 1960 — to blue). Minnesota-3 […]

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 […]

The Associated Press is reporting that U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad will shortly announce that he will not seek another term.
Ramstad, 61, a moderate Republican representing the suburban Third Congressional District, is in the middle of his ninth term. Ramstad, who once described himself to me jokingly as a RINO (that’s “Republican in name only) was […]