(06-20-2018 08:34 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote: Where do Minnesotans keep finding these people? This is a generally well adjusted state except for the politicians....
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NE Minnesota formerly had practically zero Republicans. The Duluth and Iron Range district was fervently Democrat and Labor for nearly a century. Never dreamed I live to see Duluth drawing sellouts crowds at a raucous Republican rally. That district is swinging big time to Trump, and could make the state red if it moves further to his column. The state Dino’s are moving even further left running Keith Ellison for AG and a radical Somalian for Ellison’s Hennepin County seat. Those kind of moves will even further move the whole of Minnesota to the red side.
The other out-state districts are now red, which they weren’t before.
Have some died in the wool Dino cousins that live in the Twin Cities. Seems they are even afraid of what their party has become- a branch of the 60’s hippie extremism.
Even the district that voted in Michelle Bachman, northern suburbs and St Cloud, was a formerly Dino district, but the pro abortion element in the Dino’s so turned off the Catholics there that they changed almost overnight.
Can see Minnesota becoming a solidly red state soon.
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2018 10:43 PM by NoDak.)
Quote:“Let me just say, it should say something to people that Trump was in Duluth, Minnesota. An area that would have been historically thought of as not touchable by Republicans,” Newt Gingrich said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday.
“There’s a real chance that if the Democratic Party runs to the left that you’re going to see Minnesota become really one of the bright spots for the Republican Party this fall with Tim Pawlenty getting reelected as governor. Probably picking up at least two House seats and maybe win a U.S. Senate seat. That’s something nobody could have predicted five years ago.”
“There can’t be a blue wave in this country if we’re winning in Minnesota,” he concluded.
I think Hennepin and Ramsey counties (Minneapolis and St. Paul, respectively) will keep MN blue, but the time has never been more ripe for a red Minnesota. I'd like to reserve the right to wait and see how the congressional elections turn out.
In political measurements, MN is not really important in the Presidential elections. Just not enough electoral votes.