[Zeroisanumber]

I'm hoping for Merk Kennedy, but betting on Amy Klobuchar. Percieved support for Bush sank the career of Randy Kelly earlier in the year, and the exurbs and outstate still can't counter-balance the voting power of the Twin Cities and the Iron Range.

Then again, when your a pessimist like me, you're always glad to be proven wrong.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Percieved support for Bush sank the career of Randy Kelly earlier in the year,"

It wasn't perceived, it was an unapologetic endorsement. It was incredibly courageous for the Mayor of liberal and statist St. Paul to put his neck on the line, and he paid for it. It's St. Paul's loss they preferred a Saddam-apologist Kerry Socialist hack to the moderate non-Kool-aid drinking Democrat Kelly.

[Colonel_Flagg]

the exurbs and outstate still can't counter-balance the voting power of the Twin Cities and the Iron Range

Those are exactly the people who elected Pawlenty. The Range is hemorrhaging population though the Twin Cities proper are hopeless.

I have high hopes for Kennedy, the President's numbers nothwithstanding.