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Polls differ on Minnesota public’s attitudes towards marriage amendment

By | 11.11.11 | 10:29 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

Four polls have been released this week showing different results among Minnesota’s electorate a year before the the 2012 vote on the controversial amendment to add a ban on same-sex marriage to the state constitution.

Majority in Minnesota oppose anti-gay marriage amendment

By | 05.13.11 | 2:13 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

The Star Tribune’s Minnesota Poll, released on Friday, shows that 55 percent of Minnesotans oppose inserting a ban on same-sex marriage in the Minnesota Constitution. Only 39 percent favor such a ban, it found. The poll stands in stark contrast to a survey conducted by anti-gay marriage pollster Lawrence More…

Bachmann Perpetuates Boehner’s Refuted $3000 Light-Switch Tax Myth

By | 04.08.09 | 12:30 pm

Last week, MIT professor John Reilly called out Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for intentionally misrepresenting Reilly’s cap-and-trade study to claim that President Obama’s emissions reduction scheme would cost American families more than $3,000 a year. “It’s just wrong,” Reilly told the St. Petersburg Times in reference to Boehner’s More…