From MinnPost:

This past weekend, the St. Paul RiverCentre was home to the Minnesota GOP’s state convention, and it was an event crowded with gubernatorial hopefuls, and, seemingly, equally crowded with journalists and bloggers equal to see who might break from the pack to become the party’s front-runner. Let’s ruin the suspense by saying that this weekend’s winner was State Rep. Marty Seifert, who won a straw poll of conventioneers; Minnesota Public Radio’s Tom Scheck was among those live-blogging the whole event and posted Seifert’s victory the moment it was announced, later updating it to demonstrate how dramatically the candidate had taken the lead: Seifert pulled in 454 votes; the next highest amount was Tom Emmer, who trailed by a considerable margin, with 283 votes.

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