Posted on 11/05/2016 9:21:07 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has indicated in recent days that he thinks Minnesota is his to win, will make his first public visit to the state Sunday.
“We’re going to Minnesota,” Trump said at a rally in Florida, according to reporters who were there. Trump’s Minnesota campaign confirmed the visit.
Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Keith Downey said the rally will be at 2 p.m. at the Sun Country hangar at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, according to initial information from the Trump campaign.
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He’s done what he can do in the traditional swing states. This has good psychological value.
Agree - very glad Trump is going there. My point about Reagan was that he was in a different situation - he didn’t avoid MN out of timidity, he just didn’t need it.
I’ll be watching football, but he’s already got my vote wrapped up. I’ll also be watching the skies north of MSP for that magnificent jet!
This is what I think is going but am afraid to say it on here. The internal polling is showing some slipping in a few states that are needed.
I’m a recovering elected official who has lived in MN for 30+ years now and I can assure you that MN may actually be in play. The outstate areas are overwhelmingly trump and the statewide mock high school election he won (and kids tend to vote in those things similar to the leanings of their parents.) There are a number of people I know who are traditional “FDR” democrats who reliably vote all democrat are voting 3rd party because they can’t stand / trust Hillary. If Trump can win 44% of the vote here he beats Hillary by a hair because Johnson will probably garner his highest support in the nation right here in MN and that eats into Hillary’s base. The year Ventura won as governor the Dem (Herbert Humphrey’s own grandson) came in 3rd place due to a split vote. I’m not saying it’ll happen but the vibe I have is that Trump isn’t desperate or wasting his time as others here have said.
Agreed, and yesterday or today, Trump made 4 appearances, that is a lot and with that many appearances, if one is in the area, yes, maybe one can squeeze in a state and as said, this probably hits home a bit in Western Wisconsin as well. 2 birds.
There’s no reason to go for states that are longshots that he doesn’t need.
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We do not know that it is a long shot. There is another dyn amic. He has been to “swing” states many times already, but he has not been to Minnesota. This signals enormous confidence on his part, which is likely to raise his vote totals everywhere across the nation.
It stands out, and that makes it news.
Trump has shown that he is a master at playing the media.
it doesnt look like he’s cancelling his other planned stops (Sioux City Iowa at noon and West Allis, WI at 3pm). He’s just squeezing an extra appearance which is not out of his way.
Gotta admire the fortitude of a 70 year old man.
Stevem,
Don’t forget the Iron Range:
“Records show Minnesota last voted Republican in 1928.”
They did vote for Nixon in 1972.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1972
I don't know where the home office is. At least two puppeteers on the Power Line Staff are long time Minnesotans.
Minnesota demographically still is very white. That might have something to do with it, really, white majority states, 80 or 85% or more, should be attracted to Trump...Instead of the folks that want to turn us into a 3rd world country.
Demographics, race, whatever is irrelevant in Minnesota. The motor voter laws make it entirely possible to bring in people by the bus load or train load or plane load, get them registered at whatever precinct you like on the day of the vote and have them vote away.
Felons aren't supposed to vote, but they do.
Crates of uncounted votes can be "found" the next day in the trunk of an election "judges" car if necessary, and there will always be a corrupt liberal judge who will say people vote in good faith, and they have the right to have their votes counted.
Liberals like to say there are way too many safeguards in the law. There isn't one that can't be defeated and isn't on a regular basis. A majority of black people in this state want photo ID. The Democrat Party doesn't.
Trump won't win here on Tuesday.
I believe that Reagan did actually win MN in 1984.
But, certain northeastern precincts held back their reporting until late into the night -- and then turned in a very high proportion of votes for Mondale.
I think they waited until they knew how many votes were needed to spare Mondale the embarrassment of losing his home state.
I have been told by many Republican movers and shakers (I'm a BPOU officer and have been for many years) that large parts of Northern Minnesota are turning red. Interesting, if true, but not enough.
Some precincts up north are also the most notorious for "finding" crates of votes the next nay that somehow we forgot to count.
The entire population of Minnesota would fit comfortably in a modest section of Cook County IL. As a group of citizens controlled by political leaders who care only about themselves, that new faction of Cook County would feel right at home.
Don't forget that a WA elector has said he won't vote for Clinton. I doubt he'll vote for Trump, but that's one less vote for her in a close electoral race.
Probably not but you never know
The times, they are a changin'
That was just too good to pass up saying.
I have served as a head election judge several times (including this year) and I’ll grant you the vouching system for same day registrations is very flawed but our paper ballot and double check system with the ballot readers are the best setup in the nation. Because our state has been so reliably liberal there is no need to have a weak balloting setup. So if Trump is surging here he will not be denied a win by the kind of games played in PA or FL. Remember Rep. Oberstar was defeated in the liberal of liberal areas in the iron range just a few years ago - the tide is shifting.
Reagan did make a brief public appearance in MN on the eve of the election.
He was enroute across the country and stopped in Rochester, MN, for fuel. But, it wasn't announced in advance.
It’s basically another rally in WI, just hosted in MN as a head fake. In fact, it’s Iowa, Wisconsin and Ohio.
I think the Clinton stooges are going to try and do something desperate and dangerous over the next 2 1/2 days.
Yes, it made a lot of news -- primarily because the police just stood there and watched it happen.
This is what Maine and Nebraska do, and I would like to see that as well.
Someone on FR went back and looked at the election data, all the way back to 1960. He found that if the vote count were the same, the electoral votes would have changed somewhat, but the outcome of every election would have been the same.
However (I emphasized this for a reason), that presumes that the same people would have voted, and they would have cast their vote the same way. It would significantly change the way candidates campaign, and even the policies espoused by the campaigns and parties. And, you would see a lot of new people voting because they are now in a battleground district, instead of a "safe" state.
This would require a Constitutional amendment to impose it nationwide. Without it, states like NY, CA, and TX would never willingly dilute their electoral college power.
But, I think it's a good alternative to the current electoral college. It preserves the intent of the EC: to deprive large states from overwhelming the rest of the country. A candidate has to build a coalition of states, rather than focusing solely on the large states.
I'm a bit concerned about the ability to gerrymander Congressional districts, but that could be addressed with a uniform methodology mandated by Constitutional amendment. This guy has a good idea: http://bdistricting.org/2010/. It ignores voting registration, race, gender, income, etc. and instead draws district lines to yield the most compact districts. He uses "average distance to the center of district", but discusses other possible algorithms.
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