Twin Cities Election Results and Demographics

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Which House District is Eden Prairie?

All of 42B and about half of 42A.

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Something I find amazing is that Franken actually got 26% of voters who described themselves as White Evangelical/Born Again (Obama got 35%).

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What kind of place is 53A?

Remember that North Oaks place? It contains half of it. The district is mostly based around Lino Lakes, your typical affluent suburb voting GOP mostly on that basis alone.

Interestingly while it was narrowly won by McCain, it has a DFL representative. He narrowly won in 2006 defeating the poster boy for the Club for Growth (basically someone so extreme even such a partisan district wouldn't re-elect him) and hung on this time around too.

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BTW Pawlenty's old House seat (which I'm quite familiar with, its just south of where I work and I usually go there on my lunch break) flipped to D.

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Remember that North Oaks place?

No. (wikis) "10 miles north of Saint Paul in Ramsey County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Formerly a gated community that now posts private access signage, all land is owned by homeowners with the North Oaks Home Owners Association maintaining all roads, plowing, parks, facilities, and recreation trails." Ah yes. Rings a bell. You did a thread about it years ago.

Not years ago. A couple months ago it came up in a discussion with Torie about income and voting.

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And yet Coleman outpolled Franken and Barkley combined? Wow.

More amazing is that McCain won it. It's quite impressive the DFL holds any metro seat won by McCain, considering the partisanship of the area and the swing (Hell, Eden Prairie voted for Obama!)

Ha. The part of North Oaks in the district gave McCain only 53%. Yet it voted over 60% for Coleman and gave the Republican for State House almost 57%. This was also a Mark Kennedy precinct (by only two votes, but still). Sums the Presidential election up perfectly I'd say.

Looking at the 2008 and 2006 results, I can see that Phil Krinkie (the GOP incumbent in 2006, one of those "Public schools are socialism!" types) won North Oaks and the affluent parts of Lino Lakes pretty solidly. Same with the GOP challenger this year. Both lost because they got crushed in the middle class suburban areas. Another interesting factoid there.

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Wow, over 25% where I live has no high school diploma?

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What I also find odd is the wide range. In fact, you can split the population here into four roughly equal parts: No HS diploma, only HS, some college, and bachelor's degree or higher. That's kind of unusual. And having a quarter of people where I live not graduate from high school just seems so alien to me considering my background.