Wednesday Minnesota COVID-19 update (Yesterday’s number in parentheses):

Cases: 194,570 (189,681)
Deaths: 2,754 (2,698)
Approx numb of tests: ???* (3,179,872)

*The test number has not updated yet on the @mnhealth site for the dat.
While we don’t know the test number yet, based on the approx positive rate Walz mentioned this morning, you would expect the test number to be somewhere under 24,500.
We have that elusive total test number that was missing this morning: 3,194,842
That’s 14,970 new tests and a positive rate of 32.7%

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12 Nov
The MN Senate GOP got a bit of insurance this afternoon to prevent a tie in the chamber if Biden were to appoint Klobuchar to his cabinet and Walz were to then appoint Flanagan to the US Senate. They also wouldn't mind a shot at #SD06 in a special election. #MNLeg ImageImageImage
The GOP would have been favored to hold Miller's seat in a potential special anyhow, though 1. they would probably prefer not to lose Miller in the chamber and 2. don't want to risk even a relatively small chance of an upset. ImageImageImageImage
The chain of events that would need to happen for any of this to matter are super unlikely. I doubt Biden appoints Klobuchar to anything. (Maybe convince Senate Dems to make her the new Judiciary Ranking member?) & would Walz appoint Flanagan & lose Tomassoni?
Read 6 tweets
11 Nov
A quick look at how the race panned out in my neck of the woods: #HD37A.

This was an Obama->Trump district that swung back to Biden this time. There are some more blue-collar burbs here that were open to giving Trump a shot, but looked more like the rest of the burbs in 2020. ImageImageImage
In the race for #MNLeg in #HD37A, @ErinKoegel ran roughly even (actually a hair ahead of) the top of the ticket. She was reelected to a third term against Spring Lake Park City Councilman Ken Wendling. Some minimal realignment here from 2018. ImageImageImage
In the race for #SD37, @SenJerryNewton was reelected by single digits. In the A portion of the district (which he used to represent in the House) he ran roughly even with Biden and Koegel. This was a rematch from 2016 against @sanford4mn. ImageImageImageImage
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15 Jan
Interesting new Florida poll gives Biden a wide lead with Buttigieg in 7th at 3% behind Bloomberg (7%) Klobuchar (6%) and Yang (5%).
Big shift towards Biden from their poll from early October that had Biden trailing Sanders:
Their current poll, however, is more in line with their previous polls from September and May of 2019. (It looks like the poll from October was <300 of a sample, so that may explain some of why that one sticks out)
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3 Jul 19
Bingo. Oberstar was the last person to run unopposed entirely (in 1976) and by the other major party (1978).

Side note: the last time a Republican ran completely unopposed for Congress in MN was 1926 when Frank Clague ran for his 4th term.
Clague would serve until 1933. He didn't run again in 1932 when Minnesota dealt with losing a Congressional seat and elected all 9 members of its delegation at large on one ballot after an amazingly bizarre set of events. Winners in 1932 all got between 4% and 5% statewide.
And when I say "amazingly bizarre" I am probably even understating the situation. Here is a @MinnPost article from 2018 talking about that 1932 election: minnpost.com/eric-black-ink…
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