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Question: Who will be the next Governor of Minnesota?
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Tom Emmer
 
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Margaret Anderson-Kelliher
 
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Mark Dayton
 
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Matt Entenza
 
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Tom Horner
 
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« on: June 17, 2010, 04:51:52 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2010, 04:56:41 PM »

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« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2010, 05:35:58 PM »

Dayton, oddly enough, would be my bet.
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« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2010, 10:19:00 PM »

Mark Dayton political comeback
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« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2010, 11:59:50 PM »

Dayton. Emmer won't win unless Horner makes this a legitimate 3 way race.
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« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2010, 09:11:39 AM »

Dayton. Finally, Minnesota will have a liberal governor =)
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« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2010, 12:33:01 PM »

I think MAK will win.
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« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2010, 12:46:58 PM »


She's down 13% in the latest poll.......just curious why you think so.
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« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2010, 12:52:41 PM »

Campaign has barely started and primary isn't until September.
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« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2010, 01:23:59 PM »

Campaign has barely started and primary isn't until September.

It will be interesting to see how the polls move, then.
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« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2010, 02:38:17 PM »

I have to make one correct, looks like the bill to move the primary earlier passed. It's now scheduled for August 10. Still way away though.
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« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2010, 08:17:54 PM »

Btw, can someone explain to me why such a Democratic-leaning state like Minnesota haven't elected a Democratic (formally DFL) Governor since 1986, even in 2006, when Republican asses were kicked literally across the country?
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« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2010, 08:46:12 PM »

Btw, can someone explain to me why such a Democratic-leaning state like Minnesota haven't elected a Democratic (formally DFL) Governor since 1986, even in 2006, when Republican asses were kicked literally across the country?

Recently, it's been the combination of the DFL nominating HPs (well, boring Ps) and the NOTA option (Independence Party).
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« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2010, 08:55:46 PM »
« Edited: June 23, 2010, 07:35:24 AM by Lunar »

Btw, can someone explain to me why such a Democratic-leaning state like Minnesota haven't elected a Democratic (formally DFL) Governor since 1986, even in 2006, when Republican asses were kicked literally across the country?

You do know that there are Republican governors of such conservative bastions as California, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Vermont?  And Democratic governors from such liberal bastions as Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming. Montana, Kentucky, and Tennessee?  

5 of the 10 most pro-Obama states have Republican governors and 5 of the 10 most pro-McCain states have Democratic governors.  You're going to have to wrap your head around that ASAP if you ever want to be a political junky. Smiley
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« Reply #14 on: June 24, 2010, 08:08:07 AM »

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« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2010, 06:20:50 PM »

Emmer won't win.  The man makes Michele Bachmann look mainstream.
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« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2010, 07:26:15 PM »

Mark Dayton
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« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2010, 08:33:57 PM »

Mark Dayton.
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« Reply #18 on: July 01, 2010, 11:43:47 AM »

I'm seeing a ton of Mark Dayton TV ads... they're pretty honest.  People don't like soundbites here.. if they perceive a candidate as honest, he gets like a billion kajillion brownie points.
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« Reply #19 on: July 05, 2010, 07:18:22 PM »

I'm seeing a ton of Mark Dayton TV ads... they're pretty honest.  People don't like soundbites here.. if they perceive a candidate as honest, he gets like a billion kajillion brownie points.

http://markdayton.org/mainsite/video-archives/2010/06/29/2-new-tv-ads/

These ads are genius.

Why?  They preempt the biographical attack on Dayton that he's some rich guy who feels he deserves higher office, even if he's not attacked that way, there will certainly be that perception, being that [I think] he's throwing his own cash into saturating the ads across the media stations?

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« Reply #20 on: July 05, 2010, 08:52:47 PM »
« Edited: July 05, 2010, 08:57:09 PM by Torie »

I am not sure a class warfare ad works that well these days at the moment, even in Minnesota, and that is what these ads are about, including the pic of the French colonial mansion - a rarity in understated Minnesota (yes, that is the cultural norm up there; it ain't Hollywood), that must have taken a bit of work to find.

Plus, the tax loopholes favoring the rich, and what taxes the rich should be paying, are not specified, which I think leaves the ad as more of a class warfare kind of ad as its leitmotif, rather than something that is policy specific, that voters can sink their teeth into, one way or the other. Maybe I am way off base here, but outside maybe parts of the Iron Range, I find these ads singularly ineffective myself.
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« Reply #21 on: July 06, 2010, 01:56:53 AM »
« Edited: July 06, 2010, 02:01:53 AM by Snowguy716 »

I am not sure a class warfare ad works that well these days at the moment, even in Minnesota, and that is what these ads are about, including the pic of the French colonial mansion - a rarity in understated Minnesota (yes, that is the cultural norm up there; it ain't Hollywood), that must have taken a bit of work to find.

Plus, the tax loopholes favoring the rich, and what taxes the rich should be paying, are not specified, which I think leaves the ad as more of a class warfare kind of ad as its leitmotif, rather than something that is policy specific, that voters can sink their teeth into, one way or the other. Maybe I am way off base here, but outside maybe parts of the Iron Range, I find these ads singularly ineffective myself.

you might be right about that in the suburbs... but we're in a world where Dayton can target ads to specific areas.  The class warfare ads will *always* play very well in northern Minnesota.. hence the iron rangers in the 2nd video.. and the ads there aren't so much about being against Tom Emmer.. the DFL already has the vote there.. he's trying to push people to vote for him in the primary over Kelliher (though she would probably say the same things, but in a more hushed tone.. Dayton is just more honest about it).

In the past few days, I've seen more Matt Entenza ads as well.. and every ad I've seen seems to focus on education.. it must be the issue du jour.

But compared to Emmer, who believes that property taxes should fund schools which would either severely reduce funding to rural Minnesota or cause property taxes to skyrocket while the rich suburbs got a big break (Tom Emmer's Minnesota stops at the Hennepin county line, you know).. I think they're really trying to differentiate themselves as

"We're the common sense people who take a balanced approach to things, compared to Tom Emmer who is just an angry drunk bent on eliminating government so his corporate buddies can do what they will with your lives."
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« Reply #22 on: July 06, 2010, 07:13:10 AM »

I am not sure a class warfare ad works that well these days at the moment, even in Minnesota, and that is what these ads are about, including the pic of the French colonial mansion - a rarity in understated Minnesota (yes, that is the cultural norm up there; it ain't Hollywood), that must have taken a bit of work to find.

Plus, the tax loopholes favoring the rich, and what taxes the rich should be paying, are not specified, which I think leaves the ad as more of a class warfare kind of ad as its leitmotif, rather than something that is policy specific, that voters can sink their teeth into, one way or the other. Maybe I am way off base here, but outside maybe parts of the Iron Range, I find these ads singularly ineffective myself.

Like I said, part of their effectiveness comes from preemptively blunting class arguments against himself! 
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« Reply #23 on: July 06, 2010, 09:37:44 AM »

Snowguy for Governor!
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« Reply #24 on: July 07, 2010, 07:19:19 PM »


If there's any person who deserved to become the first DFL Governor since Rudy Perpich, that's our buddy Snowguy!
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