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

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Coleman and Pawlenty were exceptions. GOP who wanted no parts of ANWR. It was close because of rural/urban divide like OR and Iowa. DFL are now the office holders in Democratic Minneaota.

They're both very moderate Republicans too.

Pawlenty is a Reagan Conservative. Coleman he was a Centrist Republican in the US Senate.

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Well "The Twin Cities" aren't friendly voting wise to Republican Presidential Candidates.

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Well "The Twin Cities" aren't friendly voting wise to Republican Presidential Candidates.

Two party vote 2012

Minneapolis- Obama 83% - Romney 17%
St Paul- Obama 78% - Romney 22%

That has to rank right up there with the most Democratic white majority cities in the nation.

This is another good point. The farmer's labor ideals have been big in Minnesota ever since the early 20th century. Minnesota isn't the only state we're having trouble in though. I'd say the same about Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania, maybe Maine, and Wisconsin and New Hampshire are looking more that way.

MI-The GOP used to win there before 1992 in Presidential Elections. Bush W. almost won PA in 2000 and 2004. NH is a swing state now and probably will always be that way. Maine- a GOP Presidential Candidate hasn't carried the state since 1988 although Bush W. did do good there I think both times. Wisconsin was close 2000 and 2004(especially-500 votes) but an R Presidential Candidate hasn't carried the state since 1984.

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Why is Northeast-North Central MN so Democratic? I guess that area is similar to some Democratic Farm Area's in Iowa term of voting.

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@ Al

The key issue you're missing is race. In Madison, Duluth and St. Paul, there is no racialized other to hate. In Toledo, Youngstown, Flint and Pontiac, there is a significant Black community that has prevented the erosion of the white Democratic vote.

If you want to see a full white working class collapse map, look at 2010. Hideous, ghastly results in every city and state. Democrats actually lost very few votes among the "creative class", they were just massacred amongst downscale whites.

Is that because they specifically disliked Democrats or because they were angry at the status quo/powers that be/incumbents, who happened to be Democrats? How well did Republicans do among the white working class in 2006, when they were the incumbent party with targets all over their backs?

The Republicans won whites by 4%- 52-48 or 51-47% in 2006.