Here in MN, after overriding the Governor's veto, the Democrat Legislature in 2007, at the height of the gas price hike, passed a gas tax increase that 65% of Minnesotans said they opposed.
Then in 2008 all these angry Minnesotans went right to the polls and expanded the tax hiking Democrats majority in the Legislature.
They re-elected the same set of politicians that were busy wrecking their paychecks while firing some of the guys who defended their paychecks
HHH understood how confused MN people are — he just got them more confused so they would support him. But he looks pretty good in retrospect.