Bernie Wins Rural Minnesota. Hillary...Ya Don't Wanna Know

I’m responsible for getting “traditionally under served” democrats and every other democrat in rural Minnesota’s 7th congressional district out to vote. Conventional wisdom is that Hillary should make my job easy, as women flock to the polls to put one of their own into the White House. That’s why up ‘til about a week ago I sheepled along with the default Hillary candidacy.

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But Bernie’s polling performance knocked “conventional wisdom” on it’s ass, then kicked it right out the campaign office door- He beat Trump 53% to 37% statewide, 64% to 30% in the urban counties, lost 43% to 47% in the ‘burbs, and won the rural west of Minnesota 51% to 36%. To recap, Bernie is the choice of 10% more voters than Hillary statewide, 7% more voters in the urban areas, 5% more voters in the suburbs, and an incredible 16% more voters in the rural rest of Minnesota! Which candidate would you rather have at the top of the ballot?

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Last night in little Marshall, Minnesota 112 people showed up not to hear Bernie, but just to attend a fundraiser for Bernie! Old timers in our local Democratic Farmer-Labor party tell me they haven’t seen that many people at a local democratic event in decades, maybe since the Farmer-Laborites were a separate party over seven decades ago. Those 112 democrats supporting Bernie slightly exceeded the modern high attendance for a democratic event in our area, near a hundred folks for the 2008 caucus when we had both Hillary’s and Obama’s supporters in attendance. And unlike our usual democratic party events where everyone has known each other for years, most of the folks at last night’s Bernie fundraiser were newbies… Bernie draws in the young voters and independents for rural democratic victories!

And here I was figuring on another boring year of defeats for democrats in rural america… Heck, if Bernie’s at the top of the ballot, I wanna run for office with him!

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/31/1477862/-Bernie-wins-rural-America-Hillary-You-don-t-wanna-know