Reliably “Blue” Minnesota Could Be Up for Grabs in November

Photograph Source: Ken Lund – CC BY-SA 2.0

Minnesota has long been considered a reliably “Blue” voting state.  Even when GOP presidential candidates Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan managed to win massive electoral college landslides – in 1972 and 1984, respectively – the Wolverine State was the one place that remained stubbornly in Democratic hands.

And no wonder.  Minnesota enjoys a long tradition of grassroots populism rooted in its Democratic Farm Labor Movement, or DFL, which...