That is painfully close. A few hundred people who kvetch about crime turning out? A few hundred Republicans crossing over? An errand thunderstorm? All could\u2019ve affected the results enough to retire Omar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have to expect the results surprised congresswoman Omar as well; she ran almost no television, and a fairly languid campaign up until the frenzied (and occasionally tone deaf) tour with The Squad this past week. Primaries usually draw the party’s loyalists to the polls – the hard-core who also go to caucuses and the next layer outward. In Minneapolis. that generally means white, upper-middle-class progressives, and public union employees. I haven’t looked at the precinct results yet, but I have to suspect Samuels started getting people to the polls who normally wait ’til November, if at all, to vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Omar pulled it off by two points. If she doesn\u2019t focus on crime, and Minneapolis continues to deteriorate, someone else – Samuels, or some new law and order DFLer – might have a shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which is probably the closest thing we can find to a silver lining on the next two races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Hennepin County races, the top two finishers in the primary go onto the general election. and if the choices of the county voters gave themselves last night are any indication, there is going to be a big opportunity for a \u201claw and order\u201c candidate in two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s hard to come up with an adjective phrase even softer than \u201csoft on crime\u201d to describe the choices<\/a> that will move to the November ballot. Mary Moriarty and Martha Holton Dimick will be the \u201coptions\u201c this fall for Hennepin county attorney. Mori<\/p>\n\n\n\n And for sheriff, committed progressive Dawanna Witt will square off against Joseph \u201cWho?\u201d Banks. When Witt wins, she will make Dave Hutchinson look like Ted Nugent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last night – at least as re the CD5 DFL primary – was a little spasm of common sense and protest voting in the highest profile race in the city, the results are fairly clear; the people who come out of the primaries are fine with Minneapolis\u2019s status quo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, the DFL finally cut itself loose from its biggest public relations boondoggle of 2020; John Thompson got pummeled, with a level of voting that suggests orders went out from party HQ<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n And in house district 52 a \u2013 the area around my radio station \u2013 the reliably moderate, center left Sandy Mason got pummeled\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n by\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Liz Reyer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Liz who?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t know who she is, but she pulled off the exceptionally difficult combination of \u201cELCA hair\u201c and pink. Not just literally, but figuratively and morally:<\/p>\n\n\n\n So Eagan has moved from center left to \u201cAlandra Cano\u201c territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1983dc78-2ba6-4ac0-8854-bc09fa08b9c0-40180-000006b0f50cc86d_file.jpg\")
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