State Legislative Elections

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Where are you guys getting the blank maps for these?

I'd do Minnesota if Iknew where to get any.

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There are maps for MN, but they are PDFs and not color coated and pretty like the ones posted here.

Right, what I want are ones I can easily make results maps out of.

It is pretty interesting how the state legislature split.. I see a split on old ethnic lines.  If you ignore the metro area (which is hard to do with so much of the state living there, but just bear with me).. you can see that the farmer and labor DFL strongholds still going.

Something that no doubt is infuriating the GOP, they thought they would make permanent gains there-didn't happen.

This also should hopefully stick a fork in their dream of one day turning the Iron Range Republican, not that they were all that succesful, but they liked to pretend they were.

The Scandinavian farming areas of northwestern, west-central, and southwestern MN stretching down the MInnesota River Valley to about Mankato, and then again in far south-eastern MN have all gone for the DFL.. the same goes for the eastern European labor areas of the iron range/Duluth areas.

Actually most of the areas just outside of here (Mankato) and to the immediate west tend to be German and Republican, though some of those leg districts did go DFL suprisingly.

The central MN and south central traditionally German areas have gone Republican.  It should also be known that Germans didn't have a very active position in Minnesota politics (at least in comparison with the Norwegians) until 1978... that year was also known as the "minnesota Massacre" when Democrats suffered major losses in the state.

But their hold is weakening. See Austin and Rochester.

I find it rather telling that Gutknecht lost Olmsted County. This is his home county and political base, and one area he should've overperformed. The GOP's collapse in Rochester continues...

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That map is cool except for the fact it's mostly just a giant mess of black, now if each county had an individual map that'd be very cool.

I should hopefully get state leg maps done tommorow. I have to use school comps though, it's virtually impossible to do so on mine.

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Here's the State Senate:



That D > 80 in the northwest corner and the only R > 80 should both be > 90, both incumbents were running unopposed.

I think I'll do State House tonight.

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The large blue one to the northeast of the metro below the light red one.

GOP only retained it by 5 points suprisingly. But it's not that conservative actually. People weren't aware of how nuts Bachmann was when she was first elected. In fact, she did worse there than she did district-wide, Klobuchar won it, and Bachmann could've lost reelection had she ran again.

Independence    JOHN PAUL BINKOWSKI    3014   8.11   
Republican    MICHELE BACHMANN    17806   47.90   
Democratic-Farmer-Labor    PATTY WETTERLING    16321   43.91   

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State House:

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As you can see by both maps, the GOP has really lost it in rural areas.

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check out the Senate race by leg districts. Ouch...

this is the Senate:



I'll do the House later. Next I'll do the Governor's race by Senate district.

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Governor's race by State Senate district:

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Stop crying about Santorum Phil. Someone is going to have to take away your shoelaces soon if you can't grow up and start acting like an adult.

Oh, little Deano. You amuse me so much.  Have a good night, pal! 

Too bad you're probably half my age, little girl.

Alhough, to read your idiotic posts, I find it hard to believe you are even that old. Maybe I'm going to have to start writing to the PA School Board. If you're what the public shools are churning out these days, the future of this country is bleak indeed.

Phil went to a Catholic school. More evidence of why private schools are evil abominations. PA public schools are just fine.

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Pretty typical for private schools.

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Obviously, Hack here is evidence that it's much more about how the individual student applies him/her self (or in his case, how much you don't) that matters, not that qaulity of the school.

Damn. The whole time my school was kidding me with my first and second honor awards?    Maybe you can tutor me, Deano? Please?     

I actually was a tutor, for four years.

But I only tutored inner-city public school 2nd and 3rd graders who were behind their reading level, not private school high schoolers were mentally retarded hacks.

Sorry, Phil.

Keep embarrassing yourself, though - this is fun!

Do you live in Cleveland or Columbus?

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Here's the Senate race by State House district. More to show just how pathetic Kennedy really was:

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More to show just how pathetic Kennedy really was:

Do you have friends?

yes. what's that have to do with this?

I already did the Senate and Governor's races by State Senate districts, so now I got around to this one. I should do the Governor's race by State House districts by the end of the weekend.

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More to show just how pathetic Kennedy really was:

Do you have friends?

yes. what's that have to do with this?

You are just a very sad boy who keeps picking on/seems to be obsessed Mark Kennedy.

We all know that if Santorum ever won with results like the ones I'm posting we'd never hear the end of you gloating about how he's the greatest person ever and all that.

Anyway, this is the first time I've bashed Kennedy in quite awhile. Just an appropiate time to point it out with the map finally completed.

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Here's the Governor's race by state house: