Who will be the next Governor of Minnesota?

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

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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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Finally watched those ads. Those are good.

Remember as stated those are primary ads so they're targeted at Democrats. In the general the entire campaign will probably mostly be "Emmer is the same as Pawlenty only worse" (which is true actually) considering Pawlenty's approval ratings have fallen through the floor and he has no real reason to try to improve.

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The new head of Emily's List referred to Dayton and Entenza as "lazy men" in a personal tweet that she subsequently deleted. Classy.

Actually I agree with that statement for the most part, at least for Dayton who didn't bother with a campaign at the caucuses and convention and whose strategy just appears to be to try to throw lots of money. Though Emily's List supporting Kelliher just because she's a woman is very stupid and why I'm not a fan of that group at all.

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Emmer is doing probably a worse job than Sharron Angle at hiding his extremism. The guy basically already has the nomination, he could at least pretend to move to the center.

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I remember reading about Emmer being a waiter for a day.  Did that already happen?  Any funny stories.

How is Emmer more blatantly extreme than Angle?  Honest question.

Angle hasn't been throwing out her lunacy as serious policy proposals since the primary, and has at least tried to keep it under wraps. Emmer went ahead with the disastrous "tip credit" thing as mentioned above, and as Snowguy noted did a horrendous job getting out of it. BTW this may be one of his staffers and not him, but please note this pulled but thankfully screenshoted tweet:

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yeah it did appear for me until Lunar's post but now vanished, weird.

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Ugh. That's an effective ad but as much as I'd hate to say it, Emmer was right with the drunk driving bill.

The bill didn't actually reduce penalties for drunk driving, rather what it aimed at was postponing the commencement of civil penalties for it (such as license suspension, the huge reinstatement fees and having it formally reported to your insurance company) until criminal penalties took effect, or essentially a true "innocent until proven guilty" thing. Under current law you can have the charges thrown out yet still have to deal with the civil penalties if arrested for a DWI.

Of course a guy with two DWIs is hardly the best choice to be the flag-bearer for DWI law reform...

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The problem is that under current law your license can remain revoked even if the charges are dropped.

BTW Entenza is sure spending a lot of money on direct mail. I'm getting lots of flyers from him, mostly just hit pieces on Emmer and stuff linking him to Sarah Palin. Pretty good ones. Kelliher is sending lots too, but they mostly are just positive ones about her. Nothing from Dayton.

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I just hope we don't end up with a Coleman/Franken-esque recount.

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Time to get a Dayton bumper sticker.