Over at the Minnesota Monitor, Jeff Fecke serves up his assessment of the MN-01 race:
In the first, Tim Walz is leading Gil Gutknecht. No, I don't have polling data, just a gut feel and eyes. Gil's rattled. He just looks like a shell of a candidate right now. He's taken approximately nine positions on Iraq, he's blaming energy woes on a secret cabal of Russians, environmentalists, and Xenu, and he's just running like a guy who is scared for his political life. Meanwhile, Tim Walz is the best candidate the DFL has put forth for any office at any level since Paul Wellstone in 1990. The first tilts right, and in a normal year, even being clearly the better man might not be enough for Walz to win. Add in the anti-GOP sentiment in the air, and Walz should win.
Cross posted to minvolved.
The Wege spanks the New York Times for its political forecasting:
If this map is as inaccurate nationwide as their take on Minnesota is, the Republicans are totally screwed. The Times thinks Michele Bachmann is leading in the Sixth, and totally ignores Walz-Gutknecht and Kline-Rowley. They also think Klobuchar-Kennedy is the GOP's best shot at picking up a Senate seat this year.
That's some seriously impaired prognosticating.
DFLers takes a look at some of Representative Gutknecht's statements about science. Given that he sits on the congressional science committee, it's not just an idle gotcha post.
Minnesota Central wonders whether Mark Kennedy's ad blames a Republican congress for Washington's woes. Good question.
Now, off to the lake like a real Minnesotan.
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