Minnesota may prove that with wise candidate selection and unique local conditions, state elections can buck national trends.
Republican Michele Tafoya appears within striking distance of Democrat Peggy Flanagan in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race. A KSTP/Survey USA poll released this week shows the lieutenant governor at 45 percent and the former sportscaster at 42 percent. The Cook Political Report, feeling the shift in political winds on the northern plains, moved the race from “Likely Dem” to “Leans Dem” this week. In a reliably blue state during a supposedly blue-wave election, the Republican should not run within the margin of error.
What explains the weak Democrat performance in the U.S. Senate race in a state that last voted Republican at the presidential level in 1972?
The looting of the state and federal treasury, primarily by Somalis. This past week, Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, exposed a grift in which swindlers paid Minnesota mothers up to $1,500 to falsely claim autism in their children. The state’s autism program, which started with just $6 million eight years ago, last year spent more than $443 million.
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