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A new research report says Minnesota’s major political parties and their endorsed candidates do not closely match most voters.
Several local polls, including 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS/SurveyUSA data, were compiled by distinguished Hamline University political science and legal studies professor David Schultz.
Schultz found that the average Minnesota voter sits closest to 60 on a scale where 0 is the most Republican possible and 100 is the most Democratic possible. Both the Republican Party of Minnesota and the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party rank farther from that middle, at 23 and 80, respectively.
“These numbers kind of show that the two parties are picking candidates that are not close to where the average Minnesotan is,” Schultz said. “Therefore, for the average voter showing up to vote, they may be looking at it saying, ‘Gosh, these candidates just don’t line up where I am, a...
