On a practical level, there’s not much call for Minnesota’s Seventh district to be represented by a Democrat; it trends Republican, and its current faux-moderate representative Collin Peterson is best known for sneering “Twenty-five percent of my people believe the Pentagon and Rumsfeld were responsible for taking the twin towers down… That’s why I don’t do town meetings.” Not incidentally, 2010 was also Peterson’s worse showing in an election since 1994, and state Senator Gretchen Hoffman is one of the Republicans vying to make sure that his next showing is even worse.  We talked with Gretchen this afternoon:

Gretchen’s site is here.

Moe Lane (crosspost)