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Welcome Aboard. If you're a Minnesotan, please be sure to go to your profile and set your "home port" as Minnesota so you can get the "local minnesota" messages & stuff.

Btw. No Dems in 2004 is a great screen name.

Let's Roll!

Thank you guys for the kind comments. I'm not actually from Minnesota (though some of my ancestors were), but I've been unable to ignore these dramatic changes in the state. It's persisting and I think it's ripe to become another Republican-leaning state. Remember that the 2002 victory was due largely to a massive turnout, contrary to the popular myth that the higher the turnout the worse for the GOP.

As others have mentioned here, Minnesota isn't the only "Gore" state that President Bush has an excellent shot in. Oregon (which is now the most Republican state on the West Coast), New Mexico, Wisconsin, Iowa and Pennsylvania are all states that Gore just scraped by in. Republicans must focus on electoral expansion, not containment.

There's a very fertile ground out there for the GOP. Let's just not be overconfident, and put our minds to it.

No Dems 2004