Posted on 09/01/2020 11:40:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I fully expect many to say it will be different this time. But when I think about Minnesota in the presidential elections for the GOP, I have visions of Lucy teeing up the football.
After that destruction in Minneapolis, even the DFL realizes it’s easier to deal with Trump than to deal with the BLM/Antifa “crazies.”
RE: But when I think about Minnesota in the presidential elections for the GOP, I have visions of Lucy teeing up the football.
Mail-in voting will be the WILDCARD. Remember how AlFranken ( in my view ) stole the Senate elections from Norm Coleman.
Coleman was leading until Franken was able to “discover” hundreds more votes in his favor. Franken won by a mere 225 votes. It was ruled that 4,800 absentee ballots were wrongly rejected and should be counted.
This WILL happen gain, this time on a nationwide scale.
I would rather be fighting on their turf than ours. I think its possible to win there. Would be crazy as its been 14 yrs since a Republican won statewide.
Interesting analysis, I feel pretty good about Trump’s chances for an upset there.
I KNOW Trump can win Minnesota..isn’t Biden going to get out of his cave and go there in the coming weeks..why go to a state you have in the bag unless Biden knows he’s in serious trouble..If Trump wins Minnesota, a state that hasn’t gone Republican in I dont know how long, its GAME OVER
Is this before or after the mail in ballots received after election day?
One note from the article—that Republicans didn’t win there with Reagan in 1984. Whether it is true or not, insiders from the Reagan campaign knew they were going to kick ass that year—probably winning every state. They had the money, and thought about advertising hard to win Minnesota, even though they knew they were going to win the election. But they didn’t, to allow Mondale to save some face and “allow” him to win his home state.
depending on how strong the democrat vote fraud department is...
Trump WILL carry Minnesota.
The rocks and cows (and 19 year old cooks) are PISSED OFF..
Spend an evening at the maskless rocks and cows bar and grille (not a real bar, Walz would send his mask police) and you’ll know just how pissed off greatest Minnesota is.
RE: Is this before or after the mail in ballots received after election day?
See Post #4 above.
If Trump takes MN it’s easy to imagine him taking WI and MI. So then by my figuring the other two states he has to focus on are FL and PA.
Are colleges on-campus in Minnesota? If not, Dems will lose thousands of votes.
Nixon was the last Republican to win MN, in 1972. Interesting considering in 1968 he ran against Sen Humphrey, from MN. Even Pres Reagan didn’t win MN.
There’s more to it than that. Iron Rangers want the mining business to work. So do all the other people living in the mining towns who depend on it for their livelihood. No one living up there wants to move to the Metro and when they’ve had to in the past they’ve spent every possible moment back up north.
The Steelworkers told their membership forever that Chinese dumping of steel in this country was killing their livelihoods and destroying their towns.
No Democrat ever did a damn thing about it. In fact, Obama’s policies made it worse.
Then along came Trump and his America First campaign. It resonated with those union steelworkers and they were shocked when he raised tariffs on imported Chinese steel. Rangers have had to rethink their entire worldview because of it. They’re voting but not in lockstep as before.
Minnesota needs to push out those crazy radical small town and rural conservatives and Republicans and replace them with welfare recipients ASAP.
The only reason Reagan didn’t win it was because Mondale was from MN.
“ But in recent elections, Democrats’ pro-environment and anti-gun positions have alienated these voters in places like the Iron Range, an ancestrally Democratic mining region, and in 2016 Trump was able to tap into their racial and economic grievances as well.”
I find it interesting that the above synopsis contains two truths and two untruths about Minnesota’s right-leaning constituency. I wonder if the Left’s inability to understand what motivates the right might explain why they are losing the state.
Truth: “...anti-gun positions have alienated these voters”.
(This is accurate: Conservatives are pro 2nd Amendment)
Untruth: “...pro-environment positions have alienated these voters”.
(This is not accurate: Conservatives are not alienated by pro environment positions, we are alienated by pro-job-killing regulation positions. There is a difference!)
Truth: “...in 2016 Trump was able to tap into their economic...grievances...”
(This is accurate: Conservatives have grievances against the Left’s socialist and globalist economic policies).
Untruth: “...in 2016 Trump was able to tap into their ...racial grievances...”
(This is not accurate: Conservatives do not have racial grievances. The race issue is an invention of the Left).
The Left’s mischaracterization of the Right adds insult to injury. It is bad enough that they fail to represent our interests, but they insult us as well - calling us racists and poor custodians of the environment - neither of which is true.
This is what President Trump is tapping into.
Trump flags on pickups all over E. Central, MN.
...and Democrats are worried because they haven’t seen any appearances by Biden or his running mate Kamala Harris.
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Why, just the other day, Biden got out of the basement for a few hours. I’ms sure after a week or two of rest he’ll be back out again.
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