Ventura loses

samcster94

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In 1998, a third party candidate won Gov. of Minnesota, a major Midwestern state. He managed to win in a three candidate race as part of the Reform Party(although he changed it after Pat Buchanan voters joined the party). The Dems has Hubert Humphrey's son as a candidate, which had been Attorney General of his state for many years. The Reps had a guy who would be a Senator from the state in the 2000's who had been Mayor of St Paul in the 90's. Ventura had no political experience at all, as a pro-Wrestler. What can be done to change the outcome so that the Dem or the Rep wins??
 
While Brooklyn Park, MN used a weak mayor model, Ventura was mayor of that suburb at the time he ran. Humphrey was running ahead most of the race, and Ventura had a late surge, that correlated with Humphrey losing roughly the same amount of support. The easiest way to get Ventura to lose is to make either the DFL candidate or the GOP candidate unacceptable to a large enough swath of voters that they're not willing to risk that person getting in. In OTL, Minnesota had a very, very moderate retiring GOP Governor, Arne Carlson, and Coleman had previously been elected as a Democrat. So it's not a super partisan environment. Maybe if Coleman stays in the DFL either him or Humphrey get the nomination, and a more firebrand GOP nominee emerges, and the DFL can campaign against that person more effectively.

Oh also, I suppose you could just have Arne Carlson run for reelection, because he'd win.
 
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