What is with CD-06?

[riverwalker]

For 20 years I’ve wanted to flip this seat. Patty Wetterling, El Tinklinberg, Jim Graves all lost to GOP Bachman or Emmer. Does GOP run stealth candidates as DFL to keep it red? Am I being paranoid? Now the only “DFL” opponent to Tom Emmer is Ian Todd and it seems he’s not even trying. I’ve written to him about his lukewarm candidacy and got a vague response. I wish Al Franken would run, but that’s a fantasy.
Frustrating, with the right candidate it could be blue again.

[trotsky]

1. I dunno, the way it's drawn up, it would be very hard for a Dem to win there.

But we've come tantalizingly close.

[riverwalker]

2. He's not even trying

Todd only has 400 followers on Twitter and won’t get a verified check mark so people know he is the real candidate. I have more followers than him and I’m nobody. Not running in the most critical mid-term election in years. He hasn’t Tweeted in 6 days, essentially no SM presence at all. Emmer is basically running unopposed, which explains all his sucking up to Trump in Duluth. Ugggh

[Scoopster]

3. It looks like he's totally new to the game.

I dropped him a follow on Twitter but it doesn't like he uses it as often as he should be. Ballotpedia doesn't have any information about him either.

[geardaddy]

4. Don't forget Tarryl Clark

I think Jim Graves is actually a closet Republican. He's ruining Uptown with crappy building projects like the Moxy hotel http://moxy-hotels.marriott.com/hotels/minneapolis-uptown.

It's also gerrymandered up the wazoo, which helps keep right-wingers in power.

[riverwalker]

7. That's right , I forgot Clark

I met Patty Wetterling when she ran against Michelle Bachman. She was campaigning with Elizabeth Edwards and I shook both their hands. Amazing women, both of them.

[Scruffy1]

5. It's the craziest ditrict in the nation.

I live about a mile from the border and Elison is my congressman. He usually gets over 75% of the vote. If you combined the the fifth and the sixth the majority would be Democratic. If they get a good candidate the seat could be won, but it's an uphill battle and it seems like the only hope is that the incumbment really screws up. It's one of the worst gerrymandered districts in the country.

[riverwalker]

6. Guess it's just going to stay red

At least for a while.

[riverwalker]

8. Good interview with Todd

Link to tweet

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