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ELECTION 2004: Minnesota
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Posted on 11/02/2004 9:04:45 AM PST by doug from upland

Post info and links about Minnesota here.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: minnesota; mn
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1 posted on 11/02/2004 9:04:45 AM PST by doug from upland
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To: doug from upland

This is the sleeper of this campaign. I'm predicting that Minnesota will be the West Virginia of 2004 -- the state that Bush wins against all conventional wisdom.


2 posted on 11/02/2004 9:06:39 AM PST by Alberta's Child (I made enough money to buy Miami -- but I pissed it away on the Alternative Minimum Tax.)
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To: doug from upland

I voted in St. Louis Park around 9am...5 minute wait, no MoveOn jackasses anywhere to be found.


3 posted on 11/02/2004 9:08:08 AM PST by jambooti
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To: Alberta's Child

I have always heard that Minnesota is a left leaning Rat state but everyone I have met from there seem to all be right leaning. Of course they all live here in Texas now, which may be why it is still left leaning.


4 posted on 11/02/2004 9:09:02 AM PST by DSBull (Liberal logic: the most mutually exclusive words in the universe!)
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To: doug from upland

Voted this morning in Eagan at 7. Lotsa people. Some retards (other voters) with kerry buttons that didn't get thrown out bugged me.

Parking lot was packed. No moveon retards to be found either


5 posted on 11/02/2004 9:09:34 AM PST by SShultz460
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To: Alberta's Child

Voted in Urban Minneapolis at 7:00am...about 500 people voting evenly split for the most part. The Move on Bunch was escorted to a location 100 feet away from the polling Site. Also we had a pleasant experience in line...Everyone was quite cordial except for one Deaniac. Rather funny as his fellow democrats told him to "Pipe Down. You're making us look like Idiots"


No sign of any real fraud although I witnessed threee people being turned away because of bad documentation...

Spring Street Polling Area


6 posted on 11/02/2004 9:09:51 AM PST by Explodo
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To: Alberta's Child
How I hope you are right. Just once in my lifetime I would love to see it. I remember the election of 1980 when Reagan was within about half a percent of beating Carter. I think this one may be as close.

By Minnesota state law, if it is within one half of one percent (50.25 to 49.75 or less), there will be a recount conducted by the Secretary of State's office.

7 posted on 11/02/2004 9:11:13 AM PST by rightwingreligiousfanatic (Bush/Cheney: Hope is here!)
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To: DSBull

The bigger the suburbs get, the more conservative voters you will get. Albert squeaked by in 2000, and now we have a GOP Governor and a majority in the House. The MN Senate is next. The proverbial worm has turned!!


8 posted on 11/02/2004 9:11:17 AM PST by RowdyYates
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To: doug from upland

The MoveOn Punks were in Little Canada, MN, on the school grounds and clearly against election law.


9 posted on 11/02/2004 9:12:11 AM PST by trader2345
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To: Explodo
Some retards (other voters) with kerry buttons that didn't get thrown out bugged me

Saw the same here in a 3rd tier suburb.

10 posted on 11/02/2004 9:12:12 AM PST by Dataman
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To: RowdyYates

From your lips to God's ears...


11 posted on 11/02/2004 9:12:53 AM PST by DSBull (Liberal logic: the most mutually exclusive words in the universe!)
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To: jambooti

As I mentioned elsewhere. Move ON was in the polling place, but well over 100 feet from where the voting was taking place.

Large numbers of volunteers and judges in the place. I would say they had double the usual election day volunteers. The had one youngers kid 18 or so just handing out I voted stickers.

Participation looks pretty strong at my polling place. Was in Byerly's afterwards and a majority had I voted stickers on.


12 posted on 11/02/2004 9:13:03 AM PST by MNlurker
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To: Explodo
...Everyone was quite cordial except for one Deaniac. Rather funny as his fellow democrats told him to "Pipe Down. You're making us look like Idiots"

LOL! What was he doing?

13 posted on 11/02/2004 9:13:05 AM PST by rightwingreligiousfanatic (Bush/Cheney: Hope is here!)
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To: trader2345

It was great here downtown...The cops had three of them by the arms moving them away...


14 posted on 11/02/2004 9:13:28 AM PST by Explodo
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To: DSBull
Minnesota has always had a reputation for being a Marxist state because of the high-profile liberals who have come from there (Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, etc.). What I have found, though, is that its liberalism is based more on the Scandinavian socialist model than the New York / Los Angeles / Washington D.C. crap that dominates in the nation's capital.

There is an undercurrent of rural social conservatism in Minnesota that you don't see in the bastions of liberalism in the Northeast and on the West Coast.

15 posted on 11/02/2004 9:13:32 AM PST by Alberta's Child (I made enough money to buy Miami -- but I pissed it away on the Alternative Minimum Tax.)
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To: doug from upland

It was a real pleasure voting here in the Brainerd area. This has been a real W stronghold throughout the campaign. Signs running 10-1 for W or even more. Good crowd in my little township at 7 am....I know most are voting Bush!

Minnesota's going RED!...BRING IT ON OSAMA! YOU FILTHY BASTARD!


16 posted on 11/02/2004 9:14:00 AM PST by wack-m and stack-m (DONE AND DONE!)
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To: doug from upland

Voted in Blaine and the only semblance of politics were 2 Bush/Cheney bumper stickers in the parking lot. No wait at all, I walked right through.


17 posted on 11/02/2004 9:16:24 AM PST by EGPWS
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To: Explodo
He was giving everyone a lesson on Election college politic and How the Electorate didn't HAVE to actually vote the way the Popular vote went...Then went on to state that he thinks the vote was going to end up[ tied etc....You know the rest of the tale about how the winners are selected...Only this guy made his own story up.

Picture this...20 years old, Smells like a goat, Goatee, Two Buttons on a Kerry Hat(One was a dean button, the other was a Bush looking like a Donkey) This guy must have been afraid of soap.
18 posted on 11/02/2004 9:16:44 AM PST by Explodo
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To: doug from upland; All
FYI... I saw about 6 vandalized Bush/Cheney signs this morning in Edina on the way to the poll.

4 were cut out with just the outline remaining, 2 were spray painted with black X's. All of the Kerry signs I saw were intact.

19 posted on 11/02/2004 9:16:51 AM PST by rightwingreligiousfanatic (Bush/Cheney: Hope is here!)
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To: Alberta's Child

I lived in Minnesota during the late 60's and early 70's. I share your view of the nature of liberalism in Minnesota.


20 posted on 11/02/2004 9:17:47 AM PST by p. henry
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