Minnesota

[ProgressiveCanadian]

Result:

Swing:

Did anyone else think this state would be closer than it was in 2000? Obama carried 28 counties in 2012, Clinton just 9. A certain Frenchmen on here predicted that Olmsted would be an "Utter Nightmare" for Trump...not quite...

[Dr. Arch]

This depresses me to no end.

[Beet]

The idea that big margins in urban areas are enough to anchor down states regardless of what happens in the sticks is one of the biggest myths shattered in this election, IMO. In state after state, if you only looked at the swings from 2012 in the biggest metro areas, you would have thought Clinton was in good shape.

[Frodo]

It makes me wonder if we're on borrowed time in those three rural Minnesota congressional districts that Donald Trump swept through.  Those incumbent Democratic congressmen (including Colin Peterson, who won by a much smaller margin than he's used to) barely held on against Trump's coat-tails.  What happens to those districts when they retire -assuming they aren't eventually voted out first?

[Dr. Arch]

It makes me wonder if we're on borrowed time in those three rural Minnesota congressional districts that Donald Trump swept through.  Those incumbent Democratic congressmen (including Colin Peterson, who won by a much smaller margin than he's used to) barely held on against Trump's coat-tails.  What happens to those districts when they retire -assuming they aren't eventually voted out first?

Please no. This is a nightmare. Muh bastion...


Thanks Hillary.

[vileplume]

It makes me wonder if we're on borrowed time in those three rural Minnesota congressional districts that Donald Trump swept through.  Those incumbent Democratic congressmen (including Colin Peterson, who won by a much smaller margin than he's used to) barely held on against Trump's coat-tails.  What happens to those districts when they retire -assuming they aren't eventually voted out first?

I think MN-7 will probably become safely Republican when Peterson goes it was already the most Republican seat held by a Democrat in the country (now even more so, Trump won by 30!). The other two I'm less sure about becoming safe Republican as MN-1 contains Rochester and MN-8 contains the Iron Range which gives the Democrats at least a foothold in both.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Love the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LxBGJsZIHQ

And Fargo was based there I think.

[Pericles]

At least Hillary won it. It could well be a swing state in 2020 and a target for Trump.

[Ljube]

I thought it was in play after seeing that Duluth poll.
I started a thread about it.