[Mpls] Precinct Caucus Postgame

[Jason C Stone]

Ward 11 Precinct 8 meeting at Hale school had over 200 attendees. Lots of energy!

AP says 35,000 MN turnout is 3x the 2000 turnout:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/468/4639672.html

Jason Stone
Diamond Lake

--- Scott Persons <pers0011 at tc.umn.edu> wrote:
> Quite a night last night!
> 
> We had 60 people at our DFL caucus in Horn Towers last night and about 45 of
> those people had never been to a caucus in their life.  The real kicker was
> that everybody stayed until the end! (about 8:00)  Our caucus was not an
> exception, in SD61 we had over 1300 attendees last night which is over
> triple the normal attendance.  We also had a great post-caucus gathering at
> a new Mexican restaurant on Lake and Bloomington (forgot the name, but it's
> on the NE corner) and about 50 people showed up for that.
> 
> I'd love to hear turnout stories from other parts of town, tonight proved to
> me what a uniter George Bush really is, everybody last night was ready to
> write his pink slip early.
> 
> Scott Persons
> Ward 10
> Lyndale Neighborhood
> 
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