Primary Day Today
By Mitch Berg
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.
August 10th, 2010 at 8:51 am
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.
August 10th, 2010 at 9:58 am
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…
August 10th, 2010 at 10:08 am
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.
August 10th, 2010 at 11:58 am
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
August 10th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
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.”
August 10th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Any MOBers going to be at OGara’s tonight??
August 10th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
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.
August 10th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Just voted in our primary. I was disappointed to only be the 193rd person to vote in my precinct.
August 10th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
[…] may be a close race, but as Mitch Berg has covered extensively in the Green Room and at his blog Shot in the Dark, Dayton has poured well over a million dollars of his family money into the primary and will […]
August 10th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
I was number 123 and voted over the lunch hour.
August 11th, 2010 at 4:29 am
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?
August 11th, 2010 at 9:46 am
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)
August 11th, 2010 at 9:49 am
“Who were the electorate at that time. How was DG wrong?”
Democracy, Republic, hey, what the diff? Not to you, apparently.
August 11th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
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.