She'll attract as many voters as she did attendees at the 2005 Labor Day Extravaganza...

http://www.shotinthedark.info/archives/006408.html

Ouch this is a tough one.

I live in the 3CD but have already committed myself to NOT voting for Ramstad. The reasons being that (a) I won’t vote to reelect any legislative incumbent once they’ve served 12 years in either House and (b) he’s pretty bad on spending and health care reform (my two main domestic issues). Also while I generally find him to be very personable, he has a tendency to pander and for someone who gets reelected so handily, seems unwilling to stick his neck out on any really tough issues.

At the same time, I realize that voting for a DFLer who is objectively worse to punish a Republican that you believe is performing poorly tends to be counterproductive because the signal it sends is NOT that the base is unhappy because you’re not conservative enough but rather than there is increased support for candidates further to your Left (which IMO is how we got Bush as our nominee in 2000) and you need to “moderate” your stance. If you have a candidate that’s a consummate political operator like Ramstad . . . well the results pretty much speak for themselves.

So other than not voting for a Congressional candidate on my ballot this Fall, what’s the alternative?