Title: Is Minnesota a Red or Blue State in 2018? | Minnesota Monthly
Headings: Is Minnesota a Red or Blue State in 2018?
Is Minnesota a Red or Blue State in 2018?
From Nonpartisan to Polarized
Hillary’s Purple-State Blues
What Is Changing?
What Has Remained?
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Content: Of course, six of those nine included the densely populated Twin Cities and Duluth. But the rest of Minnesota’s 78 less populated, mostly ex-urban counties went red, often with as much as 60-70 percent of the vote. Another dint to its blue reputation: Minnesota as a whole leans only 1 percent more Democratic than the U.S. based on the last two presidential cycles, according to the Cook Partisan Voting Index. True blue juggernauts—California, New York, and Massachusetts—clock in at 12 percent. What Is Changing? Ultimately, President Trump’s claim on Minnesota is—no surprise—complicated. A lot changes in two hours in today’s political climate, let alone two years, and it’s still a while before we’ll know the names on the ballot. In a state closely packed into opposing parties, the 2020 election will be “all about mobilization,” Schultz says. Based on his research, Jacobs expects higher blue turnout in 2020 and notes three things: