It would probably help Romney to be able to buy some breathing room, electorally. Rasmussen has Obama within 23 EV’s of the required 270 to win.
Everyone is looking at the Bush pathways to victory, but maybe Romney is thinking in terms of changing the scenario a bit.
Minnesota is an Obama state, but Pawlenty might put it in play. The same could be said for Snyder in Michigan and Corbett in Pennsylvania. MI and PA would be huge additions that would make other routes to victory possible for Romney.
Minnesota is what, 10 EV’s? 10 is important but not as much as MI’s 16 or PA’s 20.
Would he be willing to trade a Rubio in Florida, a state in which he has a prayer, with say a Corbett in PA, a place where he simply isn’t even in play? (Santorum?)
T-Paw will not deliver Minnesota.
We were the only state not voting for Reagan.
We have only become more socialist since then, even after a brief foray into la la land with Governor Jesse Ventura. That was after a Governor Arne Carlson (GOP-e before it was labeled as such). We stray occasionally, but never to conservatives.
I am free to vote my conscience in MN due to the irrelevancy of the tabulation.
I do vote down ticket though, and there are a few Conservatives here.