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dreamshark If you live in an area where one party always wins, this is your one chance to make your vote count for local offices and Congressional Rep.
If you care who wins the statewide races (of which there are MANY this year), this is your chance to vote for an electable candidate, which is probably not the candidate that your party convention chose to endorse.
For me, the outcome I care about the most is the governor's race. I sincerely hope that the primary winners will NOT be the DFL-endorsed Murphy / Maye-Quayde slate, a duo that seems to have been picked specifically to piss off all of outstate Minnesota. I'm sure they are both lovely people, and neither seems to be totally unqualified, but if there is any way to give the Republicans a fighting chance to take the statehouse again, these two are it. I teetered back and forth between Swanson and Walz for governor, but have decided to go for Walz. I'm voting Ellison for AG, although I have no particular objection to Pelikan. And my preference for 5th District Congressperson is Margaret Anderson Kelliher, who is competent, hard-working, and well-respected. If I wanted to go against the "establishment" I think I'd go for Patricia Torres Ray rather than Ilhan Omar. Omar is kind of cool, but I think she needs way more experience than a single term in the Minnesota House! I hope she sticks around though. It looks like the 5th District is going to have a female Congressional Rep no matter what. That's the first time since I've lived here, which is more than 40 years.
So that leaves... what? School Board. Yikes, those always come out of left field. Okay, I see two familiar names out of the 4 at-large candidates. I think they are both incumbents. I guess I'll vote for them. Anybody who is willing to take on this hopelessly frustrating job and then come back for more, I want to encourage them.
If you care who wins the statewide races (of which there are MANY this year), this is your chance to vote for an electable candidate, which is probably not the candidate that your party convention chose to endorse.
For me, the outcome I care about the most is the governor's race. I sincerely hope that the primary winners will NOT be the DFL-endorsed Murphy / Maye-Quayde slate, a duo that seems to have been picked specifically to piss off all of outstate Minnesota. I'm sure they are both lovely people, and neither seems to be totally unqualified, but if there is any way to give the Republicans a fighting chance to take the statehouse again, these two are it. I teetered back and forth between Swanson and Walz for governor, but have decided to go for Walz. I'm voting Ellison for AG, although I have no particular objection to Pelikan. And my preference for 5th District Congressperson is Margaret Anderson Kelliher, who is competent, hard-working, and well-respected. If I wanted to go against the "establishment" I think I'd go for Patricia Torres Ray rather than Ilhan Omar. Omar is kind of cool, but I think she needs way more experience than a single term in the Minnesota House! I hope she sticks around though. It looks like the 5th District is going to have a female Congressional Rep no matter what. That's the first time since I've lived here, which is more than 40 years.
So that leaves... what? School Board. Yikes, those always come out of left field. Okay, I see two familiar names out of the 4 at-large candidates. I think they are both incumbents. I guess I'll vote for them. Anybody who is willing to take on this hopelessly frustrating job and then come back for more, I want to encourage them.
