Does this mean anything?

[dflprincess]

While at the fair today, I counted about 10 people in the Republican's booth - and one of them appeared to be arguing with one of the workers. (I also saw only three people at Screech's booth.)

The DFL booth was so crowded it was hard to manuever through.

[doublethink]

1. Yea just more proof the 2004 Election was stolen.

And the 2000 Election too. :)

[mom cat]

2. Bush is a dictator and must be removed...

[doublethink]

3. Yes it proves that too. n/t

:)

[katinmn]

4. LOL. I would run from that party, too. Sinking ship....

[CatholicEdHead]

5. Same way last weekend

I was there the first weekend of the fair (last Sunday) and it was also about the same. A few people trickling outside the GOP booth but you could barley move around the DFL booth.

The anti-torture and Green Party booths were also somewhat busy at the second level of the grandstand. But the Constitution and Taxpayers League booths looked to be passed by and the people there quite bored.

[jbnr51]

6. Same for the Independent Party

[katinmn]

9. The Independent Party was wedged between two food vendors

with a lot of hot grease smoke blowing in their faces.

I stopped and talked and the two people there were happy to have someone come by.

I didn't see the anti-torture booth.

I secretly don't like the fair very much.

[CatholicEdHead]

14. That must be why I totally missed them

I saw every place else mentioned here.

[dflprincess]

7. I was the only person at the Green Party booth

when I stopped there yesterday morning - but it was before 11 AM and things were relatively slow in the Grandstand. Same at the anti-torture group booth. I had a great chat with the Greens, the guy at the anti-torture booth annoyed me when he went on and on about what a great guy Jim Ramstad is. I told him to look up Jimbo's voting record for the last few years. But the only response I got was "Look, he's going to get 70% of the vote, so you might as well vote for him. Then, when you write him you can say you voted for him." :wtf:

[hermetic]

8. you know

attendance is down at the fair by several thousand, I heard. And there's alot to be gleaned from that info.

[MnFats]

10. lots of people from rural areas didn't want to, or couldnt' spend..

...the kind of money it takes to drive a family to the fair.
how much gas would it take to drive a big two-seat pickup -- which you might actually have use for on a farm, rather than just looking macho on a Twin Cities commute - from, say, Thief River Falls to Falcon Heights (the REAL home of the fair, not st. paul).
Especially since no. minn. has the highest gas prices in the state.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. That's good to hear

I was kept away by circumstances.

I was going to go with my brother and his family on Saturday afternoon/evening, but then we saw the weather forecast, and in retrospect, I'm glad we didn't go then.

Sunday we had arranged to get together with the other brother to help my mom clean out her house (she and my stepfather are moving into assisted living, and they have enough Stuff for about twenty assisted living units).

Now my brother and family are going to the fair today while I'm stuck here doing work for my Japanese clients. :-(

Glad to hear that the DFL booth was crowded, though. :7

[[e-mail]]

12. went yesterday and

they were saying come see us, we are the PARTY that works for minnesota families...my husband said how and when , a guy wanted to give our grandson a balloon, we said no way. Lucky the grand kid was with. Working for MN what a lie. Oh and there were a lot of people there.As many as the DFL booth unbelieveable. How do we wake these people up?
This state is becoming more and more RED.Last year when I drove down to the Mayo clinic HWY 52 all I saw was BUSH signs. I took hwy 61 back the same thing. While going west to Maplegrove the same thing , going east to Wisc. the same thing. So how do we change this scene ??

[trotsky]

13. "More and more red"?

I think Minnesota was one of the few states (maybe the only?) that actually was more BLUE in 2004 than it was in 2000. Driving down to Rochester, yeah, you're gonna see Republican signs - SW MN is a Repuke stronghold. Plus there was the 13-seat DFL pickup in the MN house in '04 as well. One more and the DFL would have captured control.

MN may have been trending Repuke in 2000/2002 (the Wellstone memorial, after being politicized like hell by the pukes, was a big factor then), but I think that trend is over.

[CatholicEdHead]

15. Rochester has trended more purple

over the past few years. While you still see a majority Republicans around Presidential election time, I also saw quite a few K/E stickers/signs.

Highway 52, like 61 are two major commuter coordiors from the outer ring of suburbs. Highway 61 has Red Wing and espically Lake City, as you know by the sailboats/yachts, Lake Pepin is the Lake Minnetonka for the Southeast metro. I would say most of the 61 signs come from commuters but also from second houses down there, not so much the locals. If your route was 14 to 61, Wabasha and Winona, you would have seen more K/E than B/C.