You're missing one in Minnesota: Amy Klobuchar vs Jim Newberger. She's gotta be crooked as a tire iron or really bad at making deals.
OK, I'll starting reading this thread now, if that's not been mentioned a bunch, I'll eat my hat.
The sad thing about this state is they'd likely vote in a sick yellow dog if it was on the Democrat ticket. Although, most people here are pretty smart. almost went for Trump in '16. Franken only got his senate seat because they kept re-counting until he won (talk about fuckery afoot on the union-heavy Iron Range)
I'd say this state is likely going to go for the Donks on both senate races, and doubtful if the congressional delegation changes a whole lot, unless Klobuchar or Smith do the perp-walk.
MN: htt ps://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/09/16/klobuchar-smith-minnesota-senate-mpr-star-tribune-poll
Tina Smith 44, Karen Housley 37
A.Klobb 60, Jim Newberger 30
But that's MPR, so you could maybe make the case of swinging it about 5pts to the right to get accuracy.
Last MN post, and then I'll stop shitting up this bread:
Polls in MN are likely not conducted far from the seriously BLUE twin cities metro. There's a lot of people out in the hinterlands that think Trump is the best thing to happen to this nation in a long time, and are absolutely sick of what the Progressives/Dems/DeepState have done. The Smith/Housley race overlaps at one edge of the margin of error, that's pretty damn close for two months out + what The Donald just did and its snowball effects.
A.Klobb (yes, that's a Goldeneye reference) has generally been a good, party-line Democrat and hasn't made waves. The Literal Socialists in the twin shitties would be just thrilled to turn out for another empowered, experienced, liberal woman, expecially since GEOTUS hammered the last one so badly. (Also, these so-open-minded-their-brains-fell-out types just love voting community-organizing activists to executive positions, and then blaming the more conservative types for the failures of their champion post-turtles)
Housley may have a chance. Newberger probably doesn't, not without a LOT of help from the top.
Impossible? Probably impossible. Hagedorn is no stranger in MN politics, though. I think he might have been on the primary ticket for the R's after Pawlenty or something. I've heard his name around here a lot and never cared to pay attention.
MN1 is big farm country, so it could be real difficult to beat a democrat there. Drove through that area a couple weeks back, OMG SO MUCH CORN, SO MUCH SOYBEANS. Hard lobbies to beat.
But, WTF for real on that poll swing. Selective polling and editing, I'd bet.
Very true, and I bet 90% of them are voting party-line as well. All this dad-fagging & sleep deprivation may be slowing me down a bit.
So, should we say the MN senate races are a 'double or nothing' proposition for either party?
So, I pull up the Fox Live Stream and what do I hear?
"November Rain", Guns -n- Roses.
TOP. FUKK'N. KEK!!!