Democrats see Minnesota slipping away
Donsurber.com,
by
Don Surber
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
3/24/2020 11:56:03 AM
Democrats know the best case scenario now is that Minnesota is a battleground state. A state no Republican has carried in nearly 50 years was barely won in 2016. Putting Fräu Klobuchar (horse whinny) on the ticket may not be enough to stop President Donald John Trump from taking the Gopher State.
The president has done something no Democrat has done in decades: cared about the working class.
Politico sent a reporter to Ely, Minnesota, whose Democrat mayor told him, "The hope rested with Trump; that’s where the people went … it’s hope. People want hope for a better future."
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/24/2020 12:02:12 PM (No. 356425)
I highly recommend this article. I didn’t know much about Minnesota until I read it. The background on Minnesota is especially enlightening...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
rellimpank2 3/24/2020 12:05:09 PM (No. 356432)
--don't forget that Kieth Ellison , Att'y General, is ultimately in charge of finding "late" ballot boxes, etc.,--
--remember what happened when Norm Coleman ran for the Senate the last time--Al Frankedn "won"--
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 3/24/2020 12:33:45 PM (No. 356465)
Like Rush has always said...Liberals are Liberals First and everything else comes after! DFL members in MN are these people. Have a family member who I instructed to NEVER talk to me about politics again...EVER...he seethes every time we see each other because he can't spout CNN talking points. A 95 year old relative who owns just a TV!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/24/2020 12:34:19 PM (No. 356466)
Minnesota has had a whole parade of clowns since Jesse Ventura. Instead of laughs they have been brought to tears, diversity and lost opportunities, not to mention a conversion to Little Somalia. Welcome to the world of "woke."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/24/2020 1:44:15 PM (No. 356522)
Re #3,
Voter fraud matters when contests are close. When an election is decided by a huge margin, no one can plausibly claim fraud made the difference. But the Minnesota race was excruciatingly close. And then, in the Obamacare debate, Democrats could not afford to lose even a single vote. So if there were any case that demonstrates that voter fraud both exists and has real consequences, it is Minnesota 2008.
That election was “excruciatingly close”… This Byron York article from the Wayback Machine gives the details. Not so easy to pull off this time around, I’d say.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/york-when-1-099-felons-vote-in-race-won-by-312-ballots
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 3/24/2020 3:25:13 PM (No. 356598)
I sure hope that this is the way things are going. I have an uncle who has lived in Minnesota since after WW2. He is a hard lefty, and he and my father used to send barbs back and forth via e-mail.
Let's hope this is going to be a more conservative state in this next election.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/24/2020 3:30:57 PM (No. 356602)
"supported the party with blind faith"
Except, more and more "dems" are starting to ask "What's up with our party?". The party is so bad that "dems" can no longer ignore it and Trump's successes highlight dem failure. You might accept lousy economic times as the "new normal" with nothing to compare it to but when as soon as Trump is elected things begin to take off, the "new normal" looks like the typical dem failure. You might think that ISIS is really tough to find and defeat until Trump decimated them in 9 months. You might think it would be really difficult to move the US embassy to Jerusalem until Trump simply did it. You might think that high unemployment for minorities is a given until Trump's economy drove it down to a 50+ year historic low.
Then you might notice that the dems are obsessed with hating Trump. However, they can never find anything he has actually done that is unethical or illegal. In fact, you start to notice a few things, and then more that Trump has done that are undeniably good for the Country. One guy says "he can’t vote for Trump because of his views on immigrants and women" but the specifics of the views are absent. Trump's views on ILLEGAL immigrants is that they bring crime, illness, and take jobs from Americans, something that is undeniably true. Yes, Trump has tripped over his tongue about women but is there any policy he has implemented that actually detracts from women?
The original politico article says that the union boss says that Trump doesn't support labor. That's partly true because unions are Socialist. They want standardized pay and benefits no matter what a person's actual contribution to the company is. Further, they "negotiate" wage and benefit packages through intimidation, strikes, not by earning them. Those things have destroyed companies, forced them to move offshore for cheap labor, and forced them to replace labor with automation. No, Trump does not support those things. If labor was smart, they wouldn't either.
Not all dems have common sense but those who do are having serious doubts about their party. Once their eyes are opened, some of them may never go back to "blind faith". Rebuilding a winning dem coalition may not be possible without them.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/24/2020 4:13:02 PM (No. 356628)
Remember that many of the rank and file do not agree with the union bosses.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 3/24/2020 6:23:52 PM (No. 356741)
After the stupid political stunt pulled by the Dems with the relief bill, they should be worried about losing every seat in every state.
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