The Peoples' Republic of Minnesota is truly one of the most politically-befuddled states in the union. Jesse Ventura and Al Franken are testimony to this.
The descendents of the old Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party which was formed in 1924 still have visions of government sugar-plums dancing in their heads and they vote accordingly every four years.
Through the years, the F-L Party evolved into a socialist, government welfare/largesse organization till it finally merged with the Democrat party after WW2. The leftist ideology fostered through the decades is still a dominant undercurrent in the state....and it creates all kinds of identity crisises among the politicians and voters.
I won't be at all surprised if the two political oddballs, Al Frankenstein and Obama, win the state. Minnesota is a strange state....so much cold all the time has got to have a negative effect on the little gray cells.
Leni
The F-L Party had a number of card carrying Communists at the time of the merger. Hubert Humphrey ran the Communists out of the DFL ( a little factoid to make moonbat heads explode. I might mention that to David Thune, then run like h3!!). They’re baaaaaaack!