MN GOP takes Senate and House in state legislature

Republicans grabbed control of the Senate and House after making historic gains in the legislature. A distant minority as Election Day began, the GOP engineered a stunning turnaround by defending every incumbent seat and rolling back Democratic territory in rural and suburban Minnesota.

Sen. David Senjem, the Rochester Republican poised to become the new Majority Leader, credited not just an anti-Democratic mood in the country but also the quality of candidates recruited for the 2010 races. 

Pioneer Press

Catholic GOP candidate for MN Governor Tom Emmer is slightly losing with no call yet.  Likely there will be an automatic recount as MN law requires when margin of victory is less than .5 %.  This bodes badly for the GOP since Dems have proven effective and manufacturing votes and were able to legally steal the senate election and place lunatic Al Franken in the senate in 2008.   It's hard to say if the MN GOP has learned from that experience but the next few days will tell. 

Dayton's advantage was less than 10,000 votes out of nearly 2 million cast.

That is virtually certain to require a recount.

In his first public appearance after the polls closed, Dayton told the Democratic faithful at the Minneapolis Hilton Hotel at 2 a.m. this morning he was "cautiously optimistic" that he would hang on to win. He noted that ballots were still being counted in St. Louis County, encompassing traditionally Democratic Duluth and the Iron Range. "That should be good for us," he said.

But Emmer was still hoping to close the narrow gap. Appearing at the Republican watch party at the Sheraton Hotel in Bloomington, he said, "We're not quite done yet here in Minnesota when it comes to the governor's race.

Also in Iowa, Republicans retain their senate seat and win the governor's seat.  IA GOP also picked up one seat in the house and lost two close races against incumbent democrats.  In bigger news, three liberal judges were shown the door after legislating from the bench in favor of homosexual "marriage."  Reading today, liberals are really up in arms over this one.