[Eric in the Ozarks]

I never did understand what Penny was up to when he ran. 'spose he knew he would be the spoiler and draw more DFL votes than Republican ?

[J. L. Chamberlain]

It's not really clear that the IP vote breaks that way. IP folks are very fiscally conservative, almost to a fault, but they are also socially pretty liberal. One could make the case that the MN Independence Party is really more like the old Rockefeller Republicans than anything else. But it's clear that they can be spoilers if social issues are leveraged in a campaign.

J