The path to winning rural Minnesota votes
Before former DFL state Rep. Doug Peterson retires from the presidency of the Minnesota Farmers Union at year’s end — and before the F (for Farmer) in DFL fades into oblivion — I invited him to offer a few pointers on how to keep this state from splitting into warring metro and rural political tribes. I’d barely landed in my seat when he started schooling me on his party’s failures in the Nov. 8 election.“The Democrats didn’t have a message for rural people!” an animated Peterson said. “They didn’t feel they had to come to the rural areas and talk to us! [node:read-more:link]