Virginia has gotten into the habit of electing democrats the last few years, as Obama, Clinton, and Biden by a double digit margin won the state and democrats hold both senate seats and held the governorship. Yup, I said held- The republicans appear well on the way to winning the governorship, while in D+6 New Jersey an incumbent democratic governor is in the fight of his political life.
Minnesota is D+1, slightly less democratic than Virginia. Democrats have won every presidential race here for even longer than in Virginia, and we currently hold both senate seats, the governorship and every constitutional office, and the republicans last won a statewide race here in 2006. We’re not winning all those races in our sleep because Minnesota is a strong democratic state, we’ve won them because we’ve had great democratic candidates running against republicans whose names are forgotten before election day.
The republicans won Virginia by maximizing turnout of rural republican voters. In Minnesota the republicans have suffered with miserable turnout in the rural areas where they dominate while the democratic turnout operation in the metro maximizes the democratic vote. If the republicans can do in Minnesota what they did in Virginia, we won’t be a supposedly blue state much longer. Democrats, this is serious- Governor Walz and LG Flanagan protected us from Trump and his pandemic while SOS Simon assured fair elections, Auditor Blaha kept government honest, and AG Ellison provided justice. This democratic leadership team that has kept us from becoming South Dakota will be replaced if we do nothing or even “campaign as usual”, and this election will be won or lost in rural Minnesota This is an “all hands on deck” campaign that will require every resource and all the energy we can put into it. My sole focus for the next year will be to re-elect Governor Walz and our Democratic team- I’m totally in!
Are you in? Totally in?
Sassy Democrat 