Wooddale Church. Megachurch where younger Republicans—including the Pawlentys—worship. Pastor Leith Anderson heads the National Association of Evangelicals.
Minnesota’s Third District. Ramstad Country until January.
KTLK–FM. On-air home of Jason Lewis, Minnesota’s Mr. Right.
St. Louis Park. Where Al Franken, Tom Friedman, and the Coen brothers grew up. Kandahar Province to conservatives.
Mount Olivet Lutheran Church. Where Minnesota Republicans over the age of fifty go to pray. Luther Youngdahl, uncle of its longtime head pastor, was a three-term governor in the 1940s and ’50s, best remembered for outlawing slot machines and promoting humane care for state mental patients.
Lakewood Cemetery. Resting place for GOP notables Pillsbury, King, Washburn, and Lindbergh (the congressman, not the flier). Also Humphrey, Wellstone, Mikan (“Mr. Basketball”), Tiny Tim, et al.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts.Hail to the Chief: Images of the American Presidency. Present company included.
Hennepin History Museum. Among its exhibits, the golden oak desk built by South High students and used at several GOP national conventions beginning here in 1892.
Rider Bennett LLP. Where Tim and Mary practiced law. Now defunct—the firm, not the Pawtnership.
Faegre & Benson. John (Power Line) Hinderaker’s law office.
Star Tribune building. Home of the “Red Star,” the paper local conservatives still love to hate, even after it hired Kathy Kersten.
Elliot Park. Birthplace of J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), world’s richest man. Oil moguls aren’t just from Texas.
Mall of America. Capitalism’s Disneyworld. Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared at its Planet Hollywood franchise in 1996.
Guthrie Theater. Now playing: Little House on the Prairie —wholesome fare for the family-values set.
Hiawatha light rail line. Swift, clean, and economical transportation for tens of thousands of metro commuters daily. To Phil Krinkie and the Taxpayers League, the River Styx.
Theodore Roosevelt High School. Alma mater of Reagan’s JCS chairman General John Vessey Jr. and Navy SEAL Jesse Ventura.
Men’s room, MSP International Airport. Anybody not know about the trouble Larry Craig got into here? Let’s see a show of hands.
St. Anthony. Site, in 1892, of the first (and only other) GOP national convention held in Minnesota. Its nominee, President Benjamin Harrison, was soundly defeated by Democrat Grover Cleveland. Second time a charm?
Williams Arena. Site of the Wellstone memorial service October 29, 2002. A week later, Coleman defeated Mondale for the vacant Senate seat.
Fairgrounds. “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” VP Teddy Roosevelt intoned, opening the 1901 state fair. (Two weeks later, following McKinley’s assassination, TR was president.) In the 1980s, Senator Rudy Boschwitz served flavored milk to fairgoers.
Governor’s residence. Will the current occupant have a new address come January?
William Mitchell College of Law. Warren Burger’s alma mater (then the St. Paul College of Law). Harry Blackmun briefly taught here.
Alexander Ramsey House. Home of Minnesota’s second governor—its first Republican—and later U.S. senator and secretary of war. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Ramsey was the first governor to offer troops to the Union.
Xcel Energy Center. Home of the Wild, site of Obama’s primary season victory speech, and venue of the 2008 RNC.
Kellogg Boulevard. Named for Frank B. Kellogg, Coolidge’s Minnesota–bred secretary of state, once known to every high school history student as coauthor of the Kellogg–Briand Pact (1928) renouncing war. Winner of the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize.
Capitol. Cass Gilbert’s marble masterwork (circa 1905). But with a GOP governor and a DFL legislature, it’s currently a statehouse divided.
Capitol-area shrubbery. Where Michele Bachmann beat the bushes during a gay-marriage rally in 2005.
St. Paul City Hall. Where Norm was a Democrat.
Dayton’s Bluff. Harry Blackmun’s boyhood home.
Birthplace of Harold Stassen (1907-2001), Minnesota’s brilliant boy governor, UN charter delegate, and nine-time candidate for the GOP presidential nomination.
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