Lori Swanson set to run for MN Governor, with Rick Nolan as running mate.

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She would absolutely be the strongest candidate if she entered I don't know why she waited until the last minute but whatever.

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I see Murphy's running mate made an E85 gaffe today, she didn't seem to know what it was. E85 cost Hatch the race in 2006, needless to say it doesn't inspire much confidence in the Murphy ticket.

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Lori Swanson seems like a bitter egomaniac. Butthurt over losing the endorsement for AG, now jumping into this race and making a mess. Tim Pawlenty ain't winning, but it sure doesn't look good on the Democrats' part...

She didn't even really lose the endorsement. She had a majority of delegates, just not the required 60%. She could've fought to peel off delegates to get to 60, or exhausted all ballots to force no endorsement. Instead she withdrew from the endorsement race, thus allowing Pelikan to be endorsed b acclimation. Even then she could've ran in the primary and won.

This is just bizarre. And also why there's no chance of me supporting her.

I think that Swanson was just itching to move onto higher office, and being snubbed by the delegates at the convention gave her the fire in her belly to actually make a bold move.

I’m pretty surprised that Nolan agreed to be her running mate though. He endorsed Walz way back, and retired because of health issues in the family, so he must be pretty confident about their chances of beating Walz & Murphy in the primary.

Swanson/Nolan probably have name ID in the 90s among primary voters, probably dominate in the Range and she has done well in the suburbs in her past runs. And I don't buy Murphy will automatically take the Twin Cities area, voters there have seen Swanson's name far more than Murphy's.

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I see Murphy's running mate made an E85 gaffe today, she didn't seem to know what it was. E85 cost Hatch the race in 2006, needless to say it doesn't inspire much confidence in the Murphy ticket.

Murphy's LG pick makes no sense from an ideological or geographic standpoint. Quade represents the Twin Cities area, just like Murphy, and she's identical (maybe even further left) to Murphy on the issues. I don't know why she didn't choose someone more moderate or someone from outside the Twin Cities. Someone like Del Rae Williams, the outgoing mayor of Moorhead, would have made so much more sense. Not to mention what you just referenced: Quade is an inexperienced freshman State Rep. She went from working in Keith Ellison's office to freshmen Rep and has little firsthand experience on the issues. She's just a bad choice.


I like Murphy, and she has a solid background as a union leader, a nurse, and a former State House Majority Leader, but she messed up choosing Quade.

It was her doubling down on her advantages against Walz. Doubling down on the Metro support and women but this was all in anticipation of her against Walz. At this point she can't rely on being the only women and Swanson has far more appeal to the Metro than Walz ever had.

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Swanson was endorsed twice by the NRA but so was Walz, it's difficult to really pin her down ideologically because she doesn't have a voting record. Some people have been attacking her over pulling out of the travel ban lawsuit but legal stuff is always way more complex than people think.

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She wasn't endorsed by the NRA in 2014 but by some other gun rights group.

http://www.startribune.com/gun-owners-pac-goes-for-dfl-ag-swanson-anyone-but-dayton-for-governor/270025961/

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Dayton endorsed Murphy back in June, nothing new.