Primary Victories
Al Franken, Dean Barkley and Norm Coleman swept the primaries聽(results). Jeff Hayden won 61B by a landslide聽and in SD 16, Alison Krueger beat Mark Olson, which is great news for the GOP elitists that wanted to tell the people of SD 16 to go against the wife beater they endorsed. This is also a victory for those who don’t want abusive nutcases in public office (here’s a funny recap on that race that I figured I take a screenshot of before it goesaway).
Analyzing primaries can many times be a fruitless adventure, but hey, why not? Here’s a couple numbers I foundinteresting:
While Priscilla Lord Faris got 29% of the vote, for some strange reason the amount of people that chose to vote in the DFL column was just shy of聽double that of the GOP. I think there are some people on the right that wouldn’t believe that DFLers in Minnesota outnumber GOP’ers 2 to 1. Who are all these people voting in the DFLslot?
As MNpublius postulated, Coleman barely got his 90%. While the other two columns had a number of choices, the only other GOP choice was Jack Shephard. What this means is that over 12,000 Minnesotans voted that a felon living in Italy who’s issues are “100% similar” to Al Franken would be a better choice for the GOP than Norm Coleman. Note that 6 years ago Coleman got 94% against him. This year it’s91%.聽
Can I safely say that almost 10% of Republicans would prefer a felon that’d vote like Franken that lives in Italy over a corrupt聽incumbent聽that votes with Bush that lives inWashington?
Probably not. The numbers are fun to look at though. Long story short, Franken, Barkley and Colemanswept.
