Reply #5: actually, that's the only part of the state where Humphrey did well [View All]

[ButterflyBlood]

Counties won by Humphrey are in red, won by Coleman are in blue, and by Jesse in green. Jesse won because of his support in the Twin Cities and the suburbs, where the Twin Cities liberals voted for him because of his social stances while the suburban Republicans did because of his economic stances is my guess. note that the inner suburbs are where he did best. It appears he did carry my southern county by a fair margin though (Blue Earth), although that's not really suprising since Mankato where I live makes up most of the population and it's a college town and college kids were Jesse's biggest fans.



This is the 2002 election. Moe's in red, Pawlenty's in blue, and Penny's in green. Moe did best up there as you can see, he still won the Twin Cities but not as much since Penny took more votes away from him there. The suburbs went solidly for Pawlenty, and Penny did best down south, mainly because that's the part of the state he was from. Pawlenty carried my fairly liberal county because Penny did so well here (similar to how Bush carried it because Nader got more than 7%) and Moe came in 3rd place.

so it's actually the most Democratic part of the state. The Twin Cities are the most liberal, but they're more willing to vote for third parties.