"I remember distinctly reading that Hennepin County was less liberal than Ramsey County..........but I don't know how to come up with the article."
That's because Hennepin County, although having Minneapolis, Brooklyn Center and Richfeild, also has suburban conservative bastions such as Edina, Saint Louis Park (Western, not Eastern) and Eden Prarie and has rual (Although not so rual anymore) towns such as Rockford.
At any rate, this is good news!
Former Bloomington resident here.
Bloomington, the third largest city in Minnesota, is quite liberal, which is also part of Hennipen county.
I just went back for a week visit in early July. When I lived there, Bloomington was considered an outer suburb. I was surprised to find that the outer suburbs nowadays are Prior Lake and Chaska, which I've always thought of as farm towns. Bloomington is even starting to take on an inner-city atmosphere - even though the real inner city starts somewhere above 40th street, about 4 miles away.
Where did you hear that St. Paul might get the Twins? Are they gonna build them a new Stadium? I have no affection for the Dome, but I just hate it when public money is used to build a private company a new facility (especially when the Twins are only drawing 15,000 fans a game).