Only 661 days until the 2020 election -- and Minnesota activists are busy

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Hours after U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen lost his re-election bid last November, Republicans in the Third Congressional District started dissecting “what the heck happened,” said Patti Meier, the district’s GOP chairwoman.

In early December her executive team met to discuss fallout from Democrat Dean Phillips’ win. They formed a steering committee to map out plans for the next election. Two more meetings followed. On Jan. 21, the full Third District committee will gather to talk strategy.

There is no offseason in politics. Across Minnesota, activists in both parties are doing postmortems on 2018, preparing for municipal and school board elections this year and gearing up for 2020, when voters will choose a president, the U.S. House delegation, a U.S. senator and the Legislature.

Party officials are making lists of prospective candidates, analyzing data to zero in on precincts where they need to shore up support and debating ways to keep pace with rapidly evolving social-media tools.

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The migration of suburban voters to Democrats last year defined the GOP’s challenge. “There absolutely has to be a different level of attention and focus” on them, (Republican chair) Carnahan said.

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1. Interesting post,

the Minny Rethugs have always checked the why and where and what happened when they loose a Seat. We as DFLers were always late to the autopsy of a lost Seat. The real thing to remember,it is Candidate Selection. The old Seniority thing bits.