Tinklenberg loses race to Bachmann...

[democratdoug]

"Tinklenberg also expressed surprise that Anderson was winning about one in 10 votes...

Anderson, the Independent...who was only polling about 5% before the election, ended up getting 10% .

Bachman...46%

Tinklenberg...43%

Anderson...10%

No wonder the Republicans quit spending money there....they knew they would have to "fix" it! The big surge by Anderson does seem a bit odd?



http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/house/33871694.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUoaEaD_ec7PaP3iUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU

[onehandle]

1. Third party fucks in Minnesota helped the GOP, big time. nt

[shaniqua6392]

3. Third party candidates always fu*ck everything up.

I know they have a "right" to run, but they will never win. They usually keep voters from the Democrats.

[Eric J in MN]

2. The Michele Bachmann campaign had plenty of its own money...

...to spend smearing El Tinklenberg in TV ads.

[glinda]

4. Does sound odd

Is there anything they can do to look into this? I do know this area is super rich and super conservative but it has some strong progressive aspects to it so I do find this odd. I am really sick of our third Party thing. Always a stinkie mess and always grabs votes and then we are stuck with the same old crap.

[shraby]

5. Will they be counting absentees yet?

[MineralMan]

6. Will Bachmann

Try to grope Barack Obama at the SOTU? I want photos!