I agree with my man Tim's sentiment here 100%, but that @ThatSteveSack comic gets the "metro-rural" divide in Minnesota very, very wrong. Walz won in many of Minnesota's small towns, and Johnson won large swaths of the suburbs. Check the precinct map: startribune.com/how-minnesota-…
Here's what I see: yes, Walz wins the Twin Cities, Rochester, Duluth. But he also wins Northfield, Red Wing, Winona, Grand Rapids, Hibbing, Bemidji, Moorhead and big parts of Morris, St. Cloud, Willmar, and New Ulm.
Zoom in to the even smaller blue dots on the map: Ivanhoe, Granite Falls, Wheaton, Pelican Rapids, Mahnomen, Cass Lake, Ely, @SmallTownMN , Hinckley, Caledonia, Chatfield, La Crescent, St. James, Slayton: all went for Walz.
Meanwhile, in the suburbs, Johnson wins Lakeville, Prior Lake, Andover, Lino Lakes, most of the towns on Minnetonka, and dominates the outer-most ring of the metro (Elk River, Monticello, Zimmerman, etc). Those places aren't rural.
Note that this is probably not just Tim Walz. I don't have a precinct level senate map at hand, but Tina Smith won by a very similar margin, carrying many of the exact same counties as Walz/Flanagan: politico.com/election-resul…
There are lots we can and will learn from these maps, but my first takeaway is that the DFL's progressive message has wide appeal across the state. We should resist the lazy framing of the left/right divide in Minnesota as strictly (sub)urban/rural.
Couple less serious thoughts while I'm map peeping: Shout out to Willmar W1-P3 and Thief River Falls P3-A for hitting a dead tie in the governor's race.
Request: someone who knows something about St. Cloud tell me about the distinct north/south divide there 
