[nutmeg]

Also, believe it or not, a rural district in Minnesota just as likely to have gone for Franken as Colmean, probably moreso

I'm not criticizing you, just trying to learn about Minnesotans here... WHY would rural Minnesotans vote for a far-left nutcase like Al Franken? I just can't understand that...

I guess I'm under the illusion (?) that rural Americans (generally speaking) are fairly conservative traditionalists... pro-gun, pro-God, etc. Franken certainly doesn't fit that bill.

[Dead Corpse]

Some of the “rural” Minnesotans are either mining range Union leftovers or Democrat Farm Labor/Union types. Without the continued promise of Union jobs or farm subsidies, the Democrats would lose most of their voting base here.