All I know is that supposedly turnout in rural areas is high and Ellison is hurting the whole rat ticket, enough to put Governor and the Franken seat in play, I’m skeptical of winning those races but we’ll see. Ellison should lose at least.
Gaining CD-8 and CD-1 seem in the bag, knock on wood. I think Paulsen is probably gone, Lewis is in danger also but I’m hoping he can hang on. Outside chance of GOP beating Peterson but I wouldn’t bank on it.
I don’t think the State House majority is in danger and GOP should easily hold the heavily Republican vacant State Senate seat up for election (of the new LT Governor who succeeded to the office).
I attended a campaign rally (in Shakopee) with Jason Lewis this morning. He thinks it’s gonna be close again. I asked him what his internal polling said. He said that it was within the margin of error.
A few other people I know seem to believe that Paulsen is gone as well. The 3rd District has been purple for some time now and the Dems finally found a candidate (albeit a trust fund millionaire) who was willing to spend as much of his money as possible to win the seat.