Primary Day Today

Primaries are today.  If you’re a Republican, find your polling station here.  If you’re a DFLer, Mark Dayton will tell you where to go.

It’s important to go if you’re a Republican today.  Emmer should be safe from the Leslie Davis juggernaut, but our Attorney General candidate Chris Barden faces a familiar challenge – Sharon Anderson.  Back in 1994, she beat the endorsed GOP candidate Tom Neuville.  Part of it was the “Anderson” name; part of it was that there was at the time a TV talk show host in the Cities by the same name.

This year, the worry is Sharon Anderson will get votes intended for endorsed State Auditor candidate Pat Anderson.

So  while this blog never ever endorses anyone – it’s Barden for AG.  Not Anderson.

I’ll be voting after work.

14 thoughts on “Primary Day Today

  1. Good for you Mitch.

    Our democracy is premised on participation of the electorate. “Government of the people, by the people, for the people” only works if the people get up off their duffs and vote.

  2. Well, I’ll be honest, though I’m as civic/accord/accura-minded as the next guy, there’s really not a contested race on the ballot…

    But, I suppose it is still democracy in action… the races were open, someone could take a swing at the elections if they wanted…

  3. Sorry Dog, our democracy was “premised” on the participation of the property owner. Universal sufferage came later. It was also founded on the firm belief in a divine Creator who bestowed (or conferred) rights on man.
    I thank God and the Founders that we are NOT a democracy. We are a republic. Too many fools and useful idiots think our rights devolve from government, when the opposite is the truth.

  4. Better finish that eye-opener before you get to the polls, deegee. They don’t allow mason jars in the voting booth.

    I’m voting by absentee, Democrat style:

    3 for Dayton

    1 for Emmer

    1 for Pat Anderson

  5. Kerm and DG
    remember this old quote,
    woman to Ben Franklin, “what kind of government are we going to have?”
    Franklin, “A Republic madam, if you can keep it.”

  6. Any MOBers going to be at OGara’s tonight??

    Me, maybe.

    Our democracy is premised on participation of the electorate.

    Nah, not really, though I’d say we could use a runoff system, voter ID, and a ban on same-day registration/absentee voting to help with the integrity of the election process itself.

    I otherwise don’t want to push/cajole people to vote if they really don’t care and/or haven’t been paying much attention.

  7. Just voted in our primary. I was disappointed to only be the 193rd person to vote in my precinct.

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  9. Sorry Dog, our democracy was “premised” on the participation of the property owner.

    Who were the electorate at that time. How was DG wrong?

    It was also founded on the firm belief in a divine Creator who bestowed (or conferred) rights on man.

    Show me that in the constitution. Or are you interpreting?

  10. It looks like the DFL gubernatorial primary is still within the 2000 vote margin that triggers an automatic recount. I think I can predict the eventual winner but only if someone can tell me which candidate Mark Ritchie supported 😉

    (j/k)

  11. “Who were the electorate at that time. How was DG wrong?”

    Democracy, Republic, hey, what the diff? Not to you, apparently.

  12. So, the land owners were not the electorate?

    While the U.S.A. isn’t a “democracy,” we are a democratic Republic. We do have a democratic process.

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