Comments on: MN Senate District 25 results liveblog.

By: Minnesota Central

Minnesota Central — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:47:56 +0000

It’s always about turnout … the DFL did it but Cox couldn’t get his supporters to the polls.
A rough review the Northfield precincts would be that the DFL got half their supporters to the polls while Cox only got a third.

Pawlenty picked the date for the election so if Cox can’t get his supporters to the polls but the DFL can, then he failed.

Congrats to all the people who worked on the campaign … and the Senate Veto-proof Party Majority does little as long as Pawlenty still can hold the House in line.

By: C Wagner

C Wagner — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:06:33 +0000

As of 11:00:56 PM, the MN SOS is reporting Dahle 6802, Cox 5225, Norgaard 296.

Congratulations Senator Elect Kevin Dahle!

By: Northeaster

Northeaster — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:01:09 +0000

It’s official! Dahle 55%, Cox 42%

Way to go Northfield!

By: DJ Danielson

DJ Danielson — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:24:15 +0000

Did the election judges show up is my question?

By: Northeaster

Northeaster — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:16:12 +0000

Dahle should feel good. The DFLer (Peterson) took Northfield 64-36 in 2006; Peterson had 2255 votes more than Neuville.

If turnout continues to be about 25% of 2006 then Dahle makes up the 314 vote gap.

The question, did the college kids show up?

By: Archer Dem

Archer Dem — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:10:33 +0000

I’ve crunched the numbers and if turnout patterns hold in Northfield AND the partisan percentages hold from 2006, Dahle could pick up as many as 640 votes on Cox, which would put him well over the line. But that’s a lot of ifs.

By: grassrootsprogressive

grassrootsprogressive — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:03:17 +0000

Okay… so do we have to go to Northfield to get the vote machine tapes??? How could it be taking so long???

By: Hal Kimball

Hal Kimball — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:52:43 +0000

Nice work DJ!