Who Won This Minnesota Democratic Senate Race Straw Poll?
My mother has always been fond of passing along fine bits of wisdom, usually in short snippets such as "the world is run by people who show up." That's probably never truer than on the night of a political caucus. In primaries you just need to show up, maybe wait in a short line, and then vote in privacy. In a caucus, however, you need to show up for several hours minimum, publicly display a preference and then interact (maybe even cajole.) So, you can guess how many people show up (1.5% of elegible Democratic voters in the contested 2004 presidential caucus) and those people figure out who Minnesota Democrats supported. This time around there's contested races in both parties and the caucus has been moved up to join nearly two dozen other states holding contests the same day so that number may be higher. But, still, that's just a few people deciding for the many. With political activism is a near sure sign of showing up to caucus you'd imagine the straw poll of the gathering of a progressive, non-profit, left-tilting political group such as TakeAction Minnesota would provide a decent sign of who's favored and who's not in the U.S. Senate race. Well, that group not only gathered Munday afternoon but they took a straw poll in the race, the City Pages blog "The Blotter" tells us. You are now probably wondering who won among the three (yes, three) DFL candidates who showed up won, right? You may be surprised.
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My mother has always been fond of passing along fine bits of wisdom, usually in short snippets such as "the world is run by people who show up." That's probably never truer than on the night of a political caucus. In primaries you just need to show up, maybe wait in a short line, and then vote in privacy. In a caucus, however, you need to show up for several hours minimum, publicly display a preference and then interact (maybe even cajole.) So, you can guess how many people show up (1.5% of elegible Democratic voters in the contested 2004 presidential caucus) and those people figure out who Minnesota Democrats supported. This time around there's contested races in both parties and the caucus has been moved up to join nearly two dozen other states holding contests the same day so that number may be higher. But, still, that's just a few people deciding for the many. With political activism is a near sure sign of showing up to caucus you'd imagine the straw poll of the gathering of a progressive, non-profit, left-tilting political group such as TakeAction Minnesota would provide a decent sign of who's favored and who's not in the U.S. Senate race. Well, that group not only gathered Munday afternoon but they took a straw poll in the race, the City Pages blog "The Blotter" tells us. You are now probably wondering who won among the three (yes, three) DFL candidates who showed up won, right? You may be surprised.
