Da Nort Is Red -

Da Nort Is Red - Powerline covers President Bush's visit to Fridley today. Money comment - one which echoes something I've been harping on for a while:

Pawlenty said that he asked President Bush why he comes to Minnesota so often, and Bush replied that it was his love of Spam that brings him back. In reality, of course, Bush knows that Minnesota is rapidly moving out of the Democratic column. He expects to carry Minnesota in 2004, along with a number of other traditionally Democratic states.

The DFL, of course, will dispute that. Some of them even think they're going to win in '04. But the swing to the right is decades-old outstate, and the metro 'burbs have grown to the point where no rational person can doubt that Minnesota's conservative side is ascendant.

The big question - what will it take to have a conservative win in the inner city?

Oh, don't laugh. If Brett Schundler could win the Jersey City mayorship - and Joisey City is at least as myopically Democrat as St. Paul, if not as Berkeleyistic as Minneapolis - then why couldn't a conservative come up with a message that'd sell in the inner city? Leave Norm Coleman aside (and after all, he won both of his mayoral elections as a DFLer) - I think it's possible.

It's going to be a serious topic on this list in future weeks. Have an opinion? Write me. This should be good.

Posted by Mitch at June 19, 2003 10:39 PM