Is Minnesota going RED????

[a kennedy]

sorry, gotta read behind the request to buy into the weekly standard. Sorry......

http://www.weeklystandard.com/will-minnesota-finally-go-red/article/2009139

[Chasstev365]

1. Only when the GOP steals it!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Not a chance.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Only of embarrassment. nt

[a kennedy]

4. and I know.......it's the Weekly Standard.

[AJT]

5. Just like all states, rural areas are red, suburbs areas are mostly red, and urban areas are blue.

There is a possibility of getting some suburbanites to go from voting GOP to dem but rural areas have been fed Rush Limbaugh for decades. Getting people to vote in blue and purple areas is key. I'm not saying to give up on rural areas, but it is going to take a long time to get rural areas to realize that the Democratic party cares about their problems.
I don't think a lot of dems realize that people living in rural areas feel that they don't see what they are getting with their tax dollars and that the dems only seem to care about urban areas. They feel all the money goes to the cities, and they don't feel any common connection to urban areas.

[question everything]

6. It is all about the candidates

Both Obama - twice - and Hillary, carried the third congressional district. Yet, Paulsen easily wins. Thus, his Democratic opponents somehow did not run an effective campaign.

But there is hope. Until now, when his party was in the minority, he could appear as a "moderate." Now, voting with Paul Ryan and Trump, he will have harder time convincing moderates and, perhaps, Democrats.

I hope

[question everything]

7. Hillary won by a small margin and it was really late into the night

until MN was declared for Hillary.

Hillary: 46.9%
Trump: 45.4%

For most of the evening, on Yahoo, MN was red..

Still, since Sanders won the caucuses, I suspect that many Democrats chose to stay home, all believing the projection that Hillary will win.

We, Democrats, did it (stayed home) in 1968 and in 2016. Will we ever learn?