I hope this incentives people who want Harris to win to not get too comfortable.

Vote for Harris as soon as possible, your vote can make a difference in the results.

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    It’s nowhere close to a nail-biter.

    do you have any idea how close those elections have been though? 2020 Trump lost by about 7% of the vote. And that was a year with huge turnout for the DFL and a very bad year for trump. 2016, trump lost to hilary by about 1.5 %.

    MN is not quite a swing state, but it’s quite close to being one. Particularly when elections are coming down to less than a percentage point.

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        16 days ago

        Two hundred thousand. Out of three million, two hundred votes.

        You’re talking about a rounding error. In an election where Trump’s economy was in the shitter, with millions of deaths from a horribly mismanaged COVID, and all the other shit I’ve repressed because they’re just sooo much shit; and all of that motivating massive amounts of turnout for democrats and depressing turnout for republicans.

        Sorry, and again, Hillary in ‘16 barely squeaked out 1.5%; and is perhaps a better comparison. Minnesota is not, and has not ever been solid blue. It may not be a swing state, but it’s close to one.