Damn, just saw a huge tRump 2020 sign on our way home from Winona.......

[a kennedy]

We live in little town of Dakota, and go to Winona for dinner out and some shopping....and on our way home tonight I saw this huge tRump lawn sign. It had to have been 3 feet by 4 feet big.

[evertonfc]

1. money

Trump has 200 million banked to blow on anything he wants. Dont tell me we can't take PAC money.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. 1st CD, almost as right-wing as the 6th.

I know the area; it's very scenic and geologically interesting, but there are a few spots in them thar hills where they could have filmed Deliverance, complete with all the extras they needed. I'd expect there to be some Trumpers in the area.

[a kennedy]

3. Well thanks for that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Present company excluded, obviously!

I knew a lawyer who did a lot of family and mental commitment law in the area; that's how he described what he was dealing with. For a "blue" state, Minnesota definitely has its share of Trumpist enclaves.

[dflprincess]

7. I know the district covers a large geographic area

but it always seems so odd to me that the district that is home to the Mayo Clinic is also home to so many knuckle dragging members of the science denying Trump cult.

Though it's also home to the Federal Medical Center where Jim Bakker spent his time. Perhaps Trump will sent there eventually - his cult can visit him then.

https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/rch/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Rich doctors like their tax cuts.

Winona and Mankato are college towns but besides those cities and Rochester it’s pretty rural. Same urban/rural divide as elsewhere, I guess.

[dflprincess]

9. Though Clinton did win Olmstead County in 2016 (barely)

and the DFL did pretty well ithere in 2018. Dan Feehan beat Hagedorn by over 12% in the Congressional race.

The DFL won all the statewide offices in the county except the AG race and even in that Ellison only lost by about .2% (yes, point 2). The state house races were more of a mixed bag; 2 DFLers, 2 Republicans.

Maybe there's hope for the area.

https://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/Results/FedStatebyCounty/115?districtid=55

[Backseat Driver]

4. Somebody's got one that blocks a whole window of their condo

really close by; I get to look at it whenever I leave my front door. Must really kill any sunlight inside the place. The whole condo complex actually creeps me out. It's right off the golf club's entrance drive. There's little traffic in or out of the drive as opposed to our apt complex drives that are busy night and day; no one uses the pool--on the hottest or loveliest summer days - not one, and I've been here a long time. Never saw a kid or a dog walker or a delivery vehicle coming or going. We laugh that all the residents are bedridden zombies, and the nurse lives in the 2nd bedroom and goes out once every three months to get their scripts or their mail from their PO box because, hey, who needs food that doesn't involve an IV.

[Karadeniz]

6. You can make a bigger one!❤