Short post tonight- The wound from a “DFL Strategist”‘s pronouncement that Democrats don’t need rural voters is still raw, so I took another look at the stats to see what a Democratic abandonment of rural Minnesota would do, and it’s scary. The democrats win statewide races in Minnesota largely due to excellent turnout in metro counties like Hennepin, in fact of the 7 counties with over 85% turnout in 2000 Biden won 4 with margins ranging from 9% in Washington County to 43% in Hennepin! 11 Counties had turnout under 70% and Trump won 9 of them by 1% to 38%.
Almost all of those Biden high turnout counties are in the metro and almost all of the Trump low turnout counties are rural. I gamed out the effects of increased turnout in those rural Trump leaning counties and if the republicans could have increased turnout there to metro levels in 2018 Walz and Flanagan would have narrowly won and the other 3 Constitutional Officers would have probably lost… Exactly the outcome the polls are suggesting this year! Case closed- Democrats cannot win Minnesota and rural states period without at least a respectable effort in rural areas!
Normally once the Democratic Party slate is set by the primary we democrats unite behind our candidates and put off the petty infighting until after the election. But this year too many Minnesota democrats have forgotten the election and decide having a pure but losing party is more important, demanding that democrats from the grassroots up to a sitting democratic congress member be purged for exercising their freedom of speech.
Sassy Democrat 