Chris Bruhn and Carly Helfrich, both 35, voted at Linwood Community Center in St. Paul. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer.
Minnesotans are typically the nation’s most enthusiastic voters, and this year is likely to be no different with DFL Gov. Tim Walz running for vice-president. Already, more than 1.1 million Minnesotans have voted .
Following the most volatile presidential election in modern times — assassination attempts, felony convictions, a candidate switcheroo — the voters will finally have their say Tuesday in what most elections analysts are calling a true toss-up presidential election.
Beyond just deciding whether to send Walz back to Washington, however, voters have other important decisions to make. Minnesota voters in the 2nd Congressional Distirict — the state’s most competitive — will have some say about control of the U.S. House.
And voters in about 15 state House battleground districts — as well as a sole west metro special state Senate election — will decide the fate of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s current control of the state Legislature.