MN-06 Dem Challenger El Tinklenburg gets $40,000 in donations in 4 hours.

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It's too bad 45% of this district would vote for for the actual Joe McCarthy or Saddam Hussein (R) over any Democrat since being a Democrat is worse than being than Saddam Hussein (basically like 70% of my city in reverse)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I can't believe this woman got elected in a state like Minnesota. Do her constituents know she's this nutty? I can't believe they do.

Read what I said on the first page.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I can't believe this woman got elected in a state like Minnesota. Do her constituents know she's this nutty? I can't believe they do.

Read what I said on the first page.

I did, but in reality it's only an R+5 district.

Doesn't change the fact that a lot of that Rep vote (more than on the other side of the Twin Cities suburbia, apparently) is what you'd call hard support.

That's because there isn't St. Cloud on the other side. It's not really conservative (at least not the city itself), but it along with I-94 has led to a lot more exurbia dotting the countryside. On the south side once you're out of Lakeville, Prior Lake or Chanhassan you're basically out of the metro, and no more tons of uber-GOP relatively highly populated areas.

I can't believe this woman got elected in a state like Minnesota. Do her constituents know she's this nutty? I can't believe they do.

Read what I said on the first page.

I did, but in reality it's only an R+5 district.

You don't understand... it's an R+5 district.

It's funny how the most rural, traditionally German Catholic conservative areas are actually the more liberal areas of the district.  The super Republican areas are in the exurbs. 

I think it says a lot that my home town, 160 miles closer to the middle of nowhere is a lot more liberal than the 6th district.

It also helps that it has a large Native American population, is way poorer than the district, and has a university (yes St. Cloud does too but that's not really the area you're referring to.)

I can't believe this woman got elected in a state like Minnesota. Do her constituents know she's this nutty? I can't believe they do.

Read what I said on the first page.

I did, but in reality it's only an R+5 district.

You don't understand... it's an R+5 district.

It's funny how the most rural, traditionally German Catholic conservative areas are actually the more liberal areas of the district.  The super Republican areas are in the exurbs. 

I think it says a lot that my home town, 160 miles closer to the middle of nowhere is a lot more liberal than the 6th district.

But again, it comes down to the Scandinavian Lutherans versus the southern German Catholics (even the Germans here are largely protestant and from northern Germany).

I was going to ask "you call Mankato your hometown now, Dakota boy? " Then I noticed it's not BRTD posting.

Mankato also isn't anywhere near 160 miles "in the middle of nowhere".

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Mankato's 80 miles from Minneapolis, and about 60 miles from the edge of the metro, though there's also an area in it where once you leave the city you're in the 2nd district which is the main district of the south metro.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Man, we could possibly end up with a 7-1 Dem delegation after this year. Remember how we were "trending Republican"?