Minnesota has a goulash of state-affiliated parties entrenched within the major parties, and they lean pretty heavily left. A Pubbie hasn’t carried the state since 1960, I think. Even in Reagan’s ‘84 landslide, Minnesota was the one holdout state that went for Mondale. Between the Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger farmer-labor coalitions in the prairies and the Third-Worlders in the urban cesspools, don’t expect the state to go red any time in the immediate future. The rest are sitting in wooden rowboats fishing for walleye in January.