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Election 2024: US Senate

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I’m going to take a break from the posts where I need to do a research deep dive and do the US Senate race, which no one actually needs my opinion on, because it will be entertaining.

Senator Amy Klobuchar, first elected to the US Senate in 2006, is up for re-election this year. In 2018, she got 60% of the vote. (In her four elections, she’s won with 58%, 65%, 60%, and 60%.) So if you hate her, you can probably vote for someone else and she’ll be fine, although I’m sufficiently superstitious about protest votes going awry that I will probably check the box for her.

I’ll tell you right now that there’s no one else running that you would want as US Senator. Here’s who’s on the ballot:

Amy Klobuchar (DFL)
Royce White (Republican)
Rebecca Whiting (Libertarian Party)
Joyce Lynne Lacey (Independence-Alliance)

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Election 2024: US Senate

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Amy Klobuchar is running for re-election this year and there are in fact a lot of people on the primary ballot, in both parties. This is a low-stakes primary because the only real question is whether Royce White (GOP-endorsed) or Joe Fraser (lost endorsement but is at least 25% less embarrassing than Royce White) will get to lose to Amy K in November, so if you mainly come to my blog to see me make fun of people, you’ll enjoy this post. If you’re hoping for a more-left-wing alternative to Amy K, I regret to tell you that you are once again SOL.

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Election 2020: Democratic Primary

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I first got asked when I was going to write this post in early February of 2019. Fortunately, by virtue of waiting until after Iowa and New Hampshire, I never had to develop an opinion on Andrew Yang more complicated than, “I have always said that the Presidency is not an appropriate entry-level political job, and nothing that’s happened since 2016 has made me reconsider this stance.”

TL;DR — I’m endorsing Elizabeth Warren.

Here’s who’s on the Minnesota ballot, but no longer running:

Andrew Yang
Cory Booker
Deval Patrick
John K. Delaney
Julián Castro
Marianne Williamson
Michael Bennet
As of 2/29, Tom Steyer. (I left my assessment of him below.)
And as of 3/1, Pete Buttigieg (Ditto.)
Holy shit, Amy Klobuchar dropped out on 3/2 (assessment is still below.)

I am not going to write about any of these people. They have dropped out. If you are dead set on voting for one of them anyway, you obviously already have an opinion and thus don’t need mine.

On the ballot and also still running:
Bernie Sanders
Elizabeth Warren
Joseph Biden
Michael R. Bloomberg
Tulsi Gabbard

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Election 2018: US Senate (Klobuchar seat)

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the fall election cycle. Once again, I will try to cover the statewide races plus most of the ballot for St. Paul and Minneapolis, but if there’s a particular race you’re hoping I’ll cover, feel free to leave me a comment or send an e-mail. (I will definitely be writing about the AG race.)

I’m starting with this one because it’s a pretty easy one. This is the Senate race that is NOT a special election. This seat is currently held by Senator Amy Klobuchar, and whoever wins this election will serve a full six-year term.

On the ballot:

Jim Newberger (Republican)
Dennis Schuller (Legal Cannabis Now)
Paula Overby (Green)
Amy Klobuchar (DFL)

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Elections 2018: US Senator (regular term)

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We have two Senate races this year. Amy Klobuchar is running for a regular six-year term. Tina Smith is running to finish out Al Franken’s term. This is the Amy race, rather than the Tina race.

Running in the DFL primary for this Senate seat:

Steve Carlson
Stephen A. Emery
David Robert Groves
Leonard J. Richards
Amy Klobuchar

The quick, easy tl;dr answer here is to vote for Amy Klobuchar, but that’s not what you people come here for, so read on to find out, among other things, who Leonard J. Richards is.

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