Newbie GOP Congress Critter Michelle Fischbach ain’t too popular- a recent Change Research poll for MinnPost gives her the lowest net favorables among Minnesota’s GOP Congress Members. The only net positives she gets are a mere +7% from trump voters and +8% from republicans. Among the independents that swing CD7 elections she’s -22, -16 with rural voters, and -15 with greater Minnesota voters, and her district is mostly rural and entirely within greater Minnesota. DNC and other Democrats with big dollars, why aren’t you all over this race?
The capital D Democrats and their big donor allies are MIA in MN7 because they’re lousy tacticians. The GOP campaigns smarter- a few cycles back when conventional wisdom gave Democrats damn near ownership of northeast Minnesota’s labor heavy CD8 the GOP noted rising dissatisfaction with the Democratic incumbent… So they threw a little money into that cheap media district and flipped it! We democrats flipped it back and the GOP flipped it back again, but with redistricting cutting labor’s influence and the Democratic candidate a mining cancelling environmentalist while much of that labor block are miners, the district will stay GOP until democrats pick a more suitable candidate.
While the Democrats pretty much invest only in safe districts that they’d probably win anyways, the GOP picks races like venture capitalists- They know they will lose far more often than they win, but when they do win the payoff is so huge it more than makes up for all the losses. In this years congressional races where each party will spend hundreds of millions, they can easily invest $100K in spare change into CD7 and give Democratic Farmer Labor candidate Jill Abahsain’s campaign critical mass.
DNC and big dollar Dems, I dare ya…
Sassy Democrat 