Massive Republican landslide coming this November. Republicans might regain the majority. Only in your dream land will that happen. You can only get away once with winning and not having the voters realize that they’re going to have tax increase after tax increase shoved down their throat.

Michigan was the only state in a recession. The DFL policies are trying to make it two. The voters don’t want that.

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

And there’s NOTHING wrong with that!!!

Veto-proof state senate; soon to be veto-proof state house as GOP party implodes!!!

And here is earth shattering news (to lefties): If you go way off to the left – I WONT SUPPORT YOU!

What’s wrong with that?

The republicants are bragging about how they are knocking off their own. Democrats are simply having an election in which multiple candidates are vying for endorsement.

The way the system works is, anyone can file for office and seek the endorsement. This must be confusing for republicants who, for years, have had their candidates hand selected for them by the party leadership, eliminating the need for an endorsement and protecting you all from having to think.

You do realize that’s SD58, you’re talkin’ ’bout, doncha?

http://www.cfboard.state.mn.us/campfin/candleg.html#58

Communiversity student continues,(33) “We can all argue the issues, but whether you like it or not you make yourself look ignorant when you use improper grammar.”

Later on #40 communiversitystudent writes,”…I do go to the Communiversity of Minnesota where anything is alright as long as it is liberal!”

It doesn’t seem that communiversity student can “argue the issues,” by ” making statements such as “anything is alright as long as it is liberal!”

The University of Minnesota is a land grant institution [in the Constitituion of the State of Minnesota] and has at least four or five campuses that include medical hospitals and research.

I think that Erhardt and Peterson probably understand that about the U of MN.

Now, from 1982 to 2008, the DFL controlled the State Senate continously and the State House for all but 10 years. If during that time “the sodomy statute in this state stayed in place” Eva can’t blame this on the wascally Republicans. They were not in power, for the most part, during this time period.

There should be a comma after the word “spell” (Otherwise you’re advising readers to learn to spell the word “people”). Come to think of it, there should also be a comma after the word “not” in the third sentence.

Not that we’re picky, but you asked for it.

Did you mean “disgrace”?

Yes, Abeler must lose his seat, he is a disgust to the GOP. Set up a meeting with him and see if he shuts off his music….

I wouldn’t even care if a Democrat does so, the Democrat will probably be more conservative then Jim Abeler.

Ernhardt should split the vote between liberal Republicans and maybe some more conservative Democrats.

He won last time roughly 60-40. Edina has been trending blue (went for Kerry in 2004) and if the nominee is Obama, we can probably bet that Edina will go blue once more.

With a 60-40 split, it appears that the majority of Democrats have already decided not to vote Republican, even if the Republican is a RINO maybe Ramstad style type of Republican. We could probably assume though that Ramstad carried Edina much better than Ernhardt, 70-75% most likely. So we can assume that the Democrats here are willing to vote for a RINO Republican if it’s Ramstad but do not have the same allegiance in the state House races where Ernhardt garnered only 60%, meaning he wasn’t able to capture the Democrat vote then, why would he be able to do it now? The Democrat should still be able to garner 40% (if its a candidate we like just as much) and Ernhardt may take some of the moderate Republicans away leaving Downey with only the conservative Republicans which could be amount to enough people voting independent to allow the DFL to win.

However, state house races dont really get publicity, Id say about 95% of people dont know their state representatives, if they do vote for one or the other, it’s probably based on party line voting. So a lot of these moderate conservatives who we could say we would peel off for Ernhardt probably wont know the difference and will just vote Republican like always, amounting to a GOP win.

If the DFL were to win, it’d probably have very little to do with Ernhardt and more with Obama coattails.

41b was more of a wildcard. Jan had less than a week to prepare her challenge but had excellent handouts from the MN Taxpayer’s League and the Minnesota Family Council showing Neil’s pattern of bad votes (not just one.) Jan was also very familiar to many of the delegates as a longtime activist (who probably could have easily won this seat when Seagren vacated 4 years ago.)

A combination of new (Romney) delegates and angry (tax vote) people made it an easy, single ballot victory for Jan.

When Republicans act like Tics, or like we have stockholm syndrome, we lose (see Gil Gutknecht). When Republicans act like conservatives, we win.

As to Erhardt running as an indy; he’ll draw many more Tic voters than Republicans. He’ll split the bad guys’ ticket, not ours.

Did anyone expect the people that helped Erhardt and Peterson win election to sit on their thumbs?

For you DFLers here – you don’t suspect that the two DFLers that voted against the bill the first time weren’t told by trhe DFL leadership that they’d have party-backed opposition in their primaries if they didn’t vote for the override?

Regarding parties – you dance with those that bring you and you don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Voting with the party, especially for critical vote on critical issues is demanded by both the IR and DFL parties.

Keep up the great work Mike!!

Flash

http://www.looktruenorth.com/

I am having an absolutely lovely time with all of this. At least that’s one thing that we can agree on.

The Democrats will not win this seat. Period.

The Democrat will not win. He/She/It/They are toast.

A PAW CLAWS [not Santa Claus] type of attitude rips & tears.

The six (6) people recognized that “London Bridge” had already fallen down, and “My Fair Lady” wasn’t doing justice TO TWO (2) jobs TOO.