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In reply to the discussion: A Major Democratic Donor Is Reconsidering Support For Senators Who Pushed For Al Franken's... [View all]dflprincess
(28,116 posts)because turnout in the red areas of the state was higher and turnout in the blue areas was down (in fact turnout among DFLers in general was down) hopefully people inclined to vote Democratic have learned their lesson for 2018.
Ventura won in a three way race with about 34% of the vote. Skip Humphrey really wasn't considered a shoo-in. He was a wonderful Attorney General but his campaign for governor was somewhat lackluster and, by the time he ran, a lot voters were too young to remember his father (Hubert Sr, had been dead about 20 years when Skip ran).
Mondale lost to Coleman for a variety of reasons. He only had 10 days to campaign, the stink the Republicans made about the Wellstone Memorial and the fact that a lot of absentee ballots had been cast and those that had been cast for Wellstone couldn't be counted for Mondale.
That said, we can't make assumptions about how Minnesota will go (just be thankful we have same day registration and paper ballots) and it was incredibly short sided of the Senate Democrats to throw Franken under the bus and leave us with two senate seats to defend this year. On the upside two of our traditionally Republican Congressional Districts now look like they could be flipped.