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<\/p>\nIn a year in which Democrats show up, like they did in 2012, Trump would have been trounced in Minnesota. Instead, he barely lost. It was a very very close call, just a couple of percentage points.<\/p>\n
This graph says it all:<\/p>\n
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One thing this means is that the Democrats, in putting up candidates in Minnesota, are not trying to win back Republicans or Trump voters. They are simply trying to win back their own.<\/p>\n
Many months ago I coined the term “snowflake” to refer to liberals, progressives, or Democrats, who felt that since their own personal point of view is not perfectly represented in the mind of each and every other liberal or progressive or Democrat, that they should therefore complain incessantly, stay home from the polls, and sit there in a funk hoping someone like Trump wins the election in order to show the rest of them how bad they are being.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the snowflake moniker has been co-opted, without my permission, by others! But, here, I revise it for the special purpose of talking about this graph.<\/p>\n
Roughly six percent of Minnesotans are snowflakes.<\/p>\n
This year, dammit, show up.<\/p>\n
Also, in the coming convention, if you are a DFL delegate, vote for Otto because you don’t need a medium size male with a lumberjack shirt and a booming voice to win in this state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a year in which Democrats show up, like they did in 2012, Trump would have been trounced in Minnesota. Instead, he barely lost. It was a very very close call, just a couple of percentage points. This graph says it all: One thing this means is that the Democrats, in putting up candidates in … Continue reading Trump almost won in Minnesota, thanks to Democrats<\/span>