Paddy Coolican did a piece dissecting how the DFL’s gubernatorial nomination race may be Tim Walz’s to lose, as this point.<\/p>\n
We’ll come back to that later.<\/p>\n
To me, the interesting part was near the bottom, in an aside about one of the special elections last week and What It All Means to the DFL in Greater MInnesota:<\/p>\n
Jeremy Munson won the special election in southern Minnesota last week to replace fellow Republican Tony Cornish in the state House, and he won easily, running about even with President Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not a huge surprise; Cornish’s district has a pretty solid reputation.<\/p>\n
Maybe more solid than the facts warranted, at least recently, according to Coolican; Dayton and Obama ran just a couple of points behind the votes their GOP opponents – but Munson won in a snoozer, with double digit advantage.<\/p>\n
This points up a problem for the DFL: The House GOP\u2019s ruthless greater Minnesota messaging \u2014 DFL equals city slickers who don\u2019t care about you or your people \u2014 continues to work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It absolutely does.\u00a0\u00a0It’s not that I don’t think the “elites” in StPaul and DC dont’ get how much distrust and downright emnity there is for them out in the rural areas, as that they think they don’t need to care about what a bunch of rubes think.<\/p>\n
Which was easily my favorite part of Trump’s election.\u00a0 And as we’ve been pointing out on this blog for the past year, the left doesn’t get it (and here’s hoping they don’t).\u00a0 There’s a current on Big Left that believes that Red America \/ flyover land \/ the square states are not only cultural, social and intellectual wastelandns, but financial drags on Blue America – freeloaders, if you will.\u00a0 Much of that is based on Paul Krugman’s deeply dim op-ed from about ten years ago – which compared discretionary spending in states to the amount of tax revenue states provided.\u00a0 Krugman – and the even dimmer lights that parrot his findings – didn’t bother to mention that<\/p>\n
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- Red states tend to have sparse populations with lower standards (and costs) of living – so they pay less.\u00a0 (What – big left suddenly\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0<\/em>like progressive trasation?)<\/li>\n
- They get a lot of farm bill subsidy money – spread over a smaller population<\/li>\n
- They get a very disproportionate amount of military spending.\u00a0 As if the money spent on a wing of B1 bombers in South Dakota is of direct benefit to the locals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The “F” in “DFL” – “Farmer” – has been a misnomer for probably 40\u00a0 years, now.\u00a0 It’d be great if rural Minnesota made it official this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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