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)

This got long! I’m inserting a cut.