DFL continues is dismal special election record and loses House seat in 50B

[dflprincess]

This is the seat vacated by Ann Lenczewski.

We had a good candidate, Andrew Carlson, according to the SOS site he lost by 130 votes to Chad Anderson, a real Teabagger (who, of course ran moderate).

Anderson refused to attend the League of Women voters' forum or, to the best of my knowledge, attend any event where the voting public might have access to him. Except, of course, his own fundraiser and a Chamber of Commerce forum that was free to the Chambers' member but, as I heard it, nonmembers would have to pay to attend.

Anderson's father-in-law is Dan Hall who represents parts of Burnsville in the state senate. Another tool who feels he was elected to do ALEC's bidding.

Hopefully, Andrew will run again next fall.

[progree]

1. Ann Lenczewski, DFL (I had to look it up). So another D -> R seat change.

[mascarax]

2. "dismal" is right!

Thanks, dflprincess - was going to look up the election results.

So I looked at the SOS site and compared to the 2014 election.

Lenczewski (DFL): 10,060
Repub: 5,251
Write in: 24

and this one was...

Carlson (DFL): 2,452
Repub: 2,582
Write in: 5

GOTV, DFL. (I know it's harder for special elections, but c'mon...)

And I didn't realize he was Hall's son-in-law. I hope Carlson runs again in the general election.

[dflprincess]

3. Based on a comment I saw on the Senate District Facebook page

I think he does plan to run (though the comment was not made by Andrew).

I didn't expect him to pull Ann's kind of numbers - but this is clearly the result of DFLers not showing up.

[progree]

4. 2/9/16 vote as percent of 2014 vote

House District 50B

2014 Election
Lenczewski (DFL): 10,060
Repub: 5,251
Write in: 24

2/9/16 Election
Carlson (DFL): 2,452
Repub: 2,582
Write in: 5

# So the DFL vote in the 2/2016 election was 24% of what it was in the 2014 election (2452/10060)

# And the Repub vote in the 2/2016 election was 49% of what it was in the 2014 election (2582/5251)

# And the write-in vote in the 2/2016 election was 21% of what it was in the 2014 election (5/24)