Would you rather live in the Northwest Angle or Point Roberts, WA?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Angle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts%2C_Washington

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm not entirely sure what the point of this excercise is

What do these two places have in common?

Point Roberts, because it's not really far to Vancouver at all, and it's supposed to be nice.  There's actually stuff to do there, too - it's a resort town.

If you're into hunting, fishing, boating and the like, there's plenty to do in the Northwest Angle. But I'm not.

And Northwest Angle is really Republican.  Utah Republican.

Yes, it even voted for Mark Kennedy.

Something very surprising: In 2002, Paul Wellstone got more votes there than Walter Mondale. Wellstone got over 7% there countywide, also over 7% in Cook county, and almost 7% in Kittson county. What is it with isolated parts of northern Minnesota still voting for a dead guy?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What is it with isolated parts of northern Minnesota still voting for a dead guy?

It's feasible that they didn't even know he was dead.

When you got the ballot, you also got a little slip with the new Senate race on it, telling you to vote on that and not to vote on the Senate race on the main ballot. I'm not sure if votes on the main ballot still counted, but if they did, these people probably just threw out the slip and voted for Wellstone on the main ballot, which makes no sense, but whatever.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Counties with over 0.5% for Wellstone:

Lake of the Woods   7.82%
Cook   7.28%
Kittson   6.89%
Big Stone   3.44%
Cass   2.70%
Grant   2.60%
Crow Wing   2.19%
Itasca   1.65%
Red Lake   1.61%
Aitkin   1.47%
Douglas   1.37%
Polk   1.34%
Hubbard   1.22%
Carlton   1.17%
Murray   1.14%
Watonwan   1.14%
Mahnomen   1.14%
Becker   1.08%
Freeborn   1.05%
Nobles   1.04%
Lake   0.99%
Koochiching   0.99%
Norman   0.90%
Beltrami   0.85%
Morrison   0.85%
Pipestone   0.75%
Otter Tail   0.69%
Roseau   0.67%
Marshall   0.64%
Todd   0.61%
Clearwater   0.60%
Rock   0.59%
Pope   0.58%
Jackson   0.57%
Stevens   0.56%
Meeker   0.55%
Lincoln   0.55%
Cottonwood   0.54%
St. Louis   0.53%
Le Sueur   0.52%
Blue Earth   0.52%
Wadena   0.51%
Pine   0.50%
Renville   0.50%
Faribault   0.50%
Kandiyohi   0.50%