Poll: Bachmann in danger

[SomeGuyInEagan]

50. It's an odd district.

It "horseshoes" around the Twin Cities (very much DFL territory) and runs quite a ways from West to East. In the West is St. Cloud, a very conservative city with some serious racial issues in its past and present, and is mostly rural or small cities/towns after that.

Out-state Minnesota - that is, anything outside the Twin Cities metro and Duluth - is pretty red. The Twin Cities suburbs have been trending red in the past decade, but is going more purple recently.

But the MN 6th is a strange creature, geographically. When it was believed that Minnesota would lose one seat in the U.S. House after the 2010 census, many believed that the MN 6th would be the one to go.

On the upside, after the 2010 census, the state re-drew the districts and Bachmann no longer lives in the district she represents - she is now represented by DFLer Betty McCollum.