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mn9driver

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5. The Iron Range is very conservative.
Sat May 3, 2014, 02:03 PM
May 2014

However they are very pro-labor up there. Oberstar was unseated by Chip Craavack in 2010, a tea party type who had some labor credentials. He only lasted one term once people figured out that he would side with business when push came to shove.

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