That’s what I like about Ash. He tells the voters where he stands and lets the chips fall where they may. His positive message of change is what the voters of the 3rd CD deserve.

Madia: Courage to Change

I will say, however, that I am surprised Madia is accepting help and campaign appearances from Nancy Pelosi. I’m sure people on this blog are fine with it, but the average 3rd CD resident isn’t sending their Rep to DC to help pass the Pelosi agenda.

For as successful as Ramstad was, he was careful to distance himself from party leadership.

Paulsen is in McCain desperation mode. I am sure the next step will be saying he is unamerican because he is from immigrant parents.

You showed one clip. One of many. Madia has a gift for being able to tailor his message based on what an audience wants to hear. If you tailor enough… sooner or later is comes back to bite you. It is in this case.

Just compare one of the DFL primary debates to the one more recently that was the Chamber of Commerce debate. You hear two different Ashwin Madias. He knows that at the primary debate, he needs to demonstrate some liberal credentials. Then at the Chamber, he swears off liberalism like a plague because he knows the audience is pro-jobs and pro-business. That is all fine if you are taking your message and emphasizing different point. It doesn’t work as well if you are actually changing the message.

Sometimes it is called agility. Sometimes it is called getting caught in your web.

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S622655.shtml?cat=1

Or you can access it through KSTP’s homepage (scroll down about halfway). I kept having to refresh it, so best of luck.

He also stated that 97% of all of his fundraising has come from inside of Minnesota… yea right. All of those oil companies and insurance companies are based right here….

Aaron, is this the whole debate? http://kstp.com/article/stories/S623163.shtml?cat=1