Wellstone Action leader Ben Goldfarb encourages progressive organizing.

Jeff Blodgett will once again helm President Barack Obama's campaign in Minnesota. The former executive director of Wellstone Action started with the campaign on Monday.

Jeff Blodgett, who stepped down as executive director of Wellstone Action last January, is the chair of a new independent expenditure organization, 2012 Fund.

Veteran DFL campaign strategist Jeff Blodgett, who was recently named executive director of the independent expenditure group WIN Minnesota, has got his work cut out for him in 2012.

Late last month former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty made an appearance on the popular MSNBC show “Morning Joe.” The interview was timed to coincide with a major foreign policy speech that the GOP presidential hopeful was slated to give at the Council on Foreign Relations later that day.

After eight years at the helm, Wellstone Action founder Jeff Blodgett will step down from the role of executive director, saying now is "the right time for a new leader to carry the organization forward."

Gov.-elect Mark Dayton’s transition team is casting a wide net as he assembles the first DFL administration in a generation.

Tom Emmer is losing the governor's race. Of the 12 polls released since June, only one showed the Republican gubernatorial nominee with a lead - and that was a statistically meaningless one-point edge.

A slate of prominent Minnesota Democrats gathered at a private home Tuesday evening to appeal to DFLers who are thinking about voting for Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner in November instead of DFL nominee Mark Dayton. The event, hosted by top-drawer DFLers like House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and former House Minority Leader Matt Entenza - all of them one-time 2010 candidates for governor themselves - was billed as question-and-answer session in a mass email sent out to Democrats.

A slate of prominent Minnesota Democrats are hosting a panel at a private residence Tuesday night to talk to DFLers who are considering voting for Independence Party candidate Tom Horner instead of DFL nominee Mark Dayton in the general election.