In MN, we have Farmfest and it’s a required campaign stop for Gov or Senate candidates with there being a debate/forum for them against their GOP opponent. The Star Tribune has their usual article about how it goes and the common theme is farmers are the toughest constituents bc you damn well better know the price of sugar beets and corn as of yesterday. You need to show up memorized on a whole lot of recent numbers and fit them into your answers at the candidate forum.
This is what legendarily took down our 2006 gubernatorial candidate. Political analysis says it’s untrue and it’s because the gov candidate called some media person a Republican whore a week before Election Day. But, that meltdown probably happened bc the Lt Gov candidate said she didn’t know what E85 is the week before that. E85 was “the new revolutionary” thing where we could substitute gasoline to fill our cars with mostly corn. I heard way more about that blunder of epic proportions vs the Gov candidate being mad about it. How did she not know about corn substituting gasoline?
All of this resulted in the GOP winning their only MN statewide office in 2006, which they haven’t done again since. They sneaked on by in a big Dem wave bc we imploded over corn and we still had a bullshit Independence Party that mostly stole votes from us.
In MN, we have Farmfest and it’s a required campaign stop for Gov or Senate candidates with there being a debate/forum for them against their GOP opponent. The Star Tribune has their usual article about how it goes and the common theme is farmers are the toughest constituents bc you damn well better know the price of sugar beets and corn as of yesterday. You need to show up memorized on a whole lot of recent numbers and fit them into your answers at the candidate forum.
This is what legendarily took down our 2006 gubernatorial candidate. Political analysis says it’s untrue and it’s because the gov candidate called some media person a Republican whore a week before Election Day. But, that meltdown probably happened bc the Lt Gov candidate said she didn’t know what E85 is the week before that. E85 was “the new revolutionary” thing where we could substitute gasoline to fill our cars with mostly corn. I heard way more about that blunder of epic proportions vs the Gov candidate being mad about it. How did she not know about corn substituting gasoline?
All of this resulted in the GOP winning their only MN statewide office in 2006, which they haven’t done again since. They sneaked on by in a big Dem wave bc we imploded over corn and we still had a bullshit Independence Party that mostly stole votes from us.