guys, guys, jerrymandering. Help I grew up in her district, help her house is less than a mile from my childhood home, etc. She was actually elected by the kooks (my extended family) in Stearns county. That’s my theory anyway.

I would love it if some of the gradschool-level rhetoric would do its darndest to extend itself to making fun of people in the Midwest — I know people like Bachmann make it seem easy to see the “flyover” states as teeming with hateful idiots who love voting, but that’s as much a generalization as anything else that’s been discussed. I’m one of those Midwest transplants to NYC that everyone loves to complain about, and I’ve found that idiocy/bigotry/racism/sexism isn’t afraid to cross state lines. UGH I get defensive.