Minnesota's Recent Legislative Power
This is the makeup of the Minnesota state legislature every year since cold-war politics began. When you look at this chart you notice a few things. The first is that there are three years of solid Democratic control. The next is the lack of any Republican control. At least one point, Minnesota has had a Republican Governor, a Republican led Senate, and a led House. Sometimes two of the three, but never all three at once. This has made it so there has never been a rapid push of Republican policy that hasn't had Democratic say. Even when both legislative bodies were controlled by the GOP, the governor still had veto power, which without 2/3 majorities in both bodies meant the governor could still stop bills and because of this, it made bills more bipartisan. I should need to also quickly mention the Ventura years, with this kind of situation it is a blessing for true bipartisanship. Since Jesse Ventura wa...