Living as I do in the Fourth CD, watching wave after wave of excellent candidates go forth to do battle in Saint Paul (Sharna Walgren, Tomy Hernandez, Teresa Collett) and across the river in Minneapolis in the 5th CD (Doug Daggett, Chris Fields), it’s easy to get discouraged. It feels sometimes that there just is no hope.
And then you see a story like this…
…and you suck it up and you carry on for next cycle.
Unfortunately we live in MN. No hope nor miracles will ever happen here.
themaskedblogger •14 hours ago
Below is from the comments. This may not apply to CD4 and 5 in Minnesota, but it helps explain continued Repubican success in Wisconsin.
“He told me it was like him showing up at tea-party events,” Tacherra
recalls. “I told him he’s more than welcome to go to those.”
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It occurs to me Democrats would have been in less trouble this year if they’d spent less time demonizing the TPers and more time listening to them.
C’mon JPA – that story was from California the Minnesota of the West!! Great reminder of how sometimes “all politics is local” ……..