It hasn’t been a good campaign for DFL Secretary of State candidate Steve Simon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For starters, he barely got over 40% in the primary<\/em> <\/a>– against a perennial candidate and a nobody.\u00a0 Which might not have been a showstopper for the DFL machine to overcome, except that they were up against Dan Severson, who has statewide name recognition from a 2010 SOS run and a Senate bid (that came up short in the convention\u00a0in 2012).\u00a0<\/p>\n Then, last week, the polls showed that Severson was ahead of Simon<\/a>; he was the only GOP\u00a0statewide candidate to\u00a0lead in the polls at that time. \u00a0<\/p>\n At the very least – given the polling that, we are told, shows Mark Dayton supposedly cruising to victory – it’s a sign that the DFL\/Big Money Democrat onslaught has a chink in the armor.\u00a0<\/p>\n At the most?\u00a0 It shows that the DFL’s “We’re Inevitable!” vibe may not be entirely factual.\u00a0<\/p>\n Severson’s press conference last week <\/a>– in which he showed smoking guns tying the SOS office to a policy of tossing veterans’ votes, and Rep. Simon’s signature on legislation that exempted the military from absentee voter reforms – went badly for Simon, and worse for the DFL’s Ken Martin, who tried and failed to take a chunk out of Severson in a comical morning of duelling press conferences.\u00a0<\/p>\n Simon is apparently desperate; he’s now telling his base that Severson proposes “forcing rape victims to pay for rape kits”.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s BS, of course.\u00a0 Not just the usual, comical, inept BS the DFL tosses around at this point in campaigns, all juvenile photoshopped heads <\/a>and racist japes<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n