While many Minnesota Twitterers seemed to be following the ups and downs of the Vikes-Bears game last night, Deputy Party Chair and chief GOP propagandist Michael Brodkorb was swimming upstream with the likes of this:
RT @mzkirkpatrick: All 7 candidates pledged 2 abide by the endorsement. I'm sure @MinnesotaDFL would like such loyalty. #SD26special #mngop
Of course, this was not a display of loyalty, but recognition that without the party label, 5/7ths of those aspirants would lose to a hole in the ground, and the other two would split the hole vote.
The DFL slate has no such name brand problem, though it is a challenge to sort out the ways they differ from each other on policy, same as with the Republicans.
But you can tell who the GOP considers a threat on the DFL side — by monitoring the Deputy Chair's tweets about them.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak rates 28 mentions over the past two weeks. I had to go back that far just to find him some competition. (Candidate and House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher came in second with 10, and Sen. John Marty got the only other mention.)
Of course, all those retweets basically recirculate the same couple points, which is Brodkorb's stalk in trade.
