After Michigan, Minnesota Senate race becomes Democrats' next ideological test
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Two Democrats, nearly identical messages but opposite bets on who can win — the Minnesota Senate race is a live test of what electability actually means.
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Theory Briefing
- Angie Craig and Peggy Flanagan have converged on nearly the same policy message, making their primary a pure contest of competing electability theories.
- The race follows Michigan as a Democratic bellwether for whether centrist or progressive identity is the stronger general-election bet.
- Each candidate's theory of winning rests on a different assumption about which voters Democrats most need to turn out or persuade.