Talk:United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008

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[edit] note

I do not know how to sorce so please do so for me. 69.228.6.138 -comment moved here from article page by Onorem 04:04, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Prospects

Wetterling? Please, no thank you. Is there any source to cite for this idea? Appraiser 04:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Polls

Can we move the polls around... I mean put the most recent polling data on top instead of on bottom? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.37.151.121 (talk) 20:05, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] I removed

As above all the people who said there not running. Politics rule

I am curious why you undid my edit to the Minnesota senate Election 2008. I they have said they are not running, y should we keep them. Politics rule
  • Just because people say that they have no plans to run, doesn't mean that they aren't "potential candidates". The † indicates those people. No need to remove the names.--Appraiser 00:57, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Caucus

Is the Democratic candidate going to be chosen in the caucus today? Kuralyov (talk) 03:39, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I thought that there would be a preference vote at the caucus, but at my precinct, the race was entirely ignored.--Appraiser (talk) 13:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
As stated in the first paragraph of the article, the state primary election is Sept 9, 2008. Feb 5 was a caucus for the presidential delegates only.Mattfiller (talk) 22:25, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
It's actually slightly more complicated than that. The February 5 caucuses selected delegates to their county convention, who subsequently selected delegates to the state convention. The DFL State Convention will endorse a candidate on June 7 and the Republican State Convention will endorse a candidate on May 29. Most candidates respect the party's endorsement, and if they do not receive it, they drop out of the race. If this is the case, then the primaries will essentially mean nothing, because there will be one name on the ballot for each party's primary. However, it is also entirely possible for a candidate to not receive the party's endorsement, and still run in the primaries on September 9. Mark Dayton did this in 2000, and although he lost the endorsement, he won the nomination. What I'm trying to say is that for the Wikipedia article to simply say that the candidate is decided by the September 9 primaries is a total oversimplification of the process, which is greatly effected by the February 5 caucuses. I will therefore change it to reflect that. Brash (talk) 23:28, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] James Broom Wellstone

Why isn't he listed on here?? -Laikalynx (talk) 06:02, 9 March 2008 (UTC)