Obama Flying High in Minnesota

In the form of the honorable Mark Dayton.  

"Obama rallies Democrats in tight Minn. race" by Philip Rucker, Washington Post  |  October 24, 2010

MINNEAPOLIS — Laboring to stave off a Republican rout in the Midwest, President Obama yesterday rallied his party’s base around gubernatorial hopeful Mark Dayton, a rare Midwestern Democrat positioned to buck that trend....   

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I would vote for him.

Polls show Dayton, 63, a one-term senator who left office in 2007, enjoys a narrow lead in a close three-way race against state Representative Tom Emmer, a Republican, and Tom Horner, who is the Independence Party candidate.

Republicans are poised to pick up several governorships now held by Democrats, but the Minnesota race offers Democrats a rare opportunity this year to capture a Republican seat....   

We can only pray they pick up Massachusetts.

Stumping in Minnesota, Obama capped off a four-day tour of Western battleground states where he campaigned vigorously for three endangered Democratic senators and two other gubernatorial candidates and raised several million dollars for the party’s final get-out-the-vote efforts.

Obama campaigned this week in friendly territory; he carried all five states — Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Minnesota — by comfortable margins in his 2008 presidential campaign.

Obama won Minnesota, 54 percent to 44 percent, but his approval rating has fallen here as it has everywhere....

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