I live in Minneaoplis area too...it's really not as bad as it's made out to be...the only reason Ellison won is because he ran in a district that is wayyyy DFL...if it had been a senate spot or in another district that wasn't so obviously DFL it never would have happened...
It seems bad in Minnie from here (Los Angeles). First, the airport/ taxi drivers' thing -- and the airport board seems clueless about how to handle that. Then Ellison, and him taking the Koran with him .YEGAD. That just turns my stomach. I think we have to fight this Islamic Fascism on every small front -- Giulianis' broken windows theory and all that.