Tag: Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar and the DFL: Insights from Eight Years of Election Results (Pt 1)
About this Series
There are two accepted truths held by many in Minneapolis politics. One is that campaigning on an agenda that emphasizes identity politics...
Pt 2: Omar’s impact on the 2024 Presidential race in CD5
A clear national portrait has emerged since November 5, 2024: Trump won decisively, not with a wide margin, but a consistent one, mainly because...
Pt 3: Ilhan Omar does not produce votes for statewide DFL candidates
At the end of November in 2020, Dave Wasserman, Senior Editor at Cook Political Report, stated that Ilhan Omar was the largest underperforming Democratic...
Pt 4: lhan Omar portends a DFL vote margin collapse
The Star Tribune’s Omar quote “… more outreach, more policy signals and more understanding of progressive priorities “would be helpful in us winning.”” immediately...
Pt 5: Why is Omar’s comparative performance so poor?
Ilhan Omar’s defenders routinely greet reports of her comparative electoral weaknesses by accusing CD5 voters of Islamophobia, racism, misogyny, xenophobia. And yet:
CD5 voters...
Pt 6: What should the DFL do?
In a November 26 press conference, his first after leaving the VP campaign trail, Governor Walz was asked about Omar’s remarks to the Star...