The Iron Range doesn’t always line up votes in statewide endorsement battles, but often it will. Not so this year. If you recall some of my earlier posts about Range politics (Part 1 and Part 2) the Range has three basic DFL factions: labor, progressives and opinion leaders. Sometimes they line up and sometimes they divide into coalitions. What’s unique about the U.S. Senate race this year is that all three are divided and subdivided between three different candidates.
Insightful post. Thanks.
About the “hyphen disadvantage” Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer supposedly has: A New York Jew ex-Democrat turned Republican who is totally in bed with Big Money, and is a big city fast talker is the Republican opponent. I don’t think my Blackduck relatives are going to vote for Norm because the other guy, a Minnesotan, has a hyphen.