Not being a statistician, I’m not sure if that’s something to be concerned about, since it was only a primary.
But, unfortunately, I must admit that I am.
Statewide turnout, that is.
It did exceed GOP turnout.
The DFL had a number of high profile primaries, the biggest being the primary for 5th District US House. In other areas of the Mpls St Paul area, they had some heavily contested legislative primaries.
The GOP, with the exception of a few scattered contested state legislative primaries, really had nothing to vote for.
Not sure how to read the tea leaves on this yet.
That isnt surprising. MN has always been and probably always will be a Dem stronghold. when i grew up there the DFL (Democrat Farm Labor) party owned the state and that was 50 years ago. Even then it was virtually Socialist. The difference between then and now is the DFL has morphed into an actual socialist party with the Somali population in the Twin Cities at the helm. The Scandinavian Minnesotans have been largely supplanted in leadership..