Minnesota- Why can't the GOP get the job done there?

[Brewer]

I live in Duluth and I definitely concur with Sol. Unions are very strong in Minnesota, and the GOP has a difficulty with appeasing unions (for good reasons, in my opinion ). You'd need to be a pretty populist conservative to win here, or in this select area at least.

[Brewer]

It's ridiculous to expect Republicans to be competitive at the presidential level because of the past success of Pawlenty and Coleman.

Pawlenty and Coleman only won because of the stupid Independence Party.

There's a lot of dopey Minnesota voters who think everyone's so gosh darn nice they can't decide who to vote for, so they end up throwing their vote away on the IP.

If there were just two parties on the ballot though, Democrats would win every statewide race no contest, except very rarely.

Plus the fact that the Dems botched the Wellstone funeral.

Speaking of Wellstone, I just realized that when he had a goatee he looked like Toby Ziegler.

[Brewer]

Out of the past three GOP candidates, I saw Romney as the most able to do well in Minnesota. Honestly, I did think he was going to do better. I'm exposed to a whole lot of liberal MN though, since I'm in St. Louis County, but I thought I saw more 'Keep Minnesota Red' signs than usual.