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Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District is one of the most affluent in the state, encompassing the suburbs of Hennepin County to the north, west, and south of Minneapolis. With blue-collar Brooklyn Park to the north, middle-income Bloomington to the south, and high-income Plymouth and Wayzata to the West, it features a mixed characteristic. Politically, it voted for George Bush in 2004, but with only 51 percent of the votes cast. It may lean Republican, but it tends to lean moderate Republican. Rep. Jim Ramstad hasn't had a serious threat to his seat in years. In 2006, he turned aside a challenge from DFLer Wendy Wilde by a 65-to-35 percent margin.
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District Information
Median age: 39
School age:20%
Age 65+: 10 %
Percent below poverty: 3.5%
Per capita income: $32,613
Median housing value: $161,241
Percent unemployed: 2%
Percent minority:12%
Percent college graduate: 25%
Percent less than high school diploma:4%
The Money Race
| Candidate | Funds |
| Jim Ramstad | $872,705 |
| Wendy Wilde | $50,973 |
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2004: 3rd District election results |
Coleen Rowley accused John Kline of "blind loyalty" to the Bush administration. Kline accused Rowley of violating her own call for integrity.
(10/04/2006)
Minnesota's 1st Congressional District race has heated up. In a part of the state that has voted Republican for years, a Democratic challenger may have a chance.
(10/04/2006)
Familiar names face off in the 8th District race this year. Long-time incumbent Democrat Jim Oberstar faces a challenge from Republican Rod Grams, the former TV news anchor who served both in the U.S. House and Senate.
(10/02/2006)
The three candidates for Congress in Minnesota's 6th district offered distinctly different views and sharp exchanges on health care, taxes and the war in Iraq in a debate Thursday night.
(09/21/2006)
The candidates for Minnesota's 6th Congressional District seat met for their first debate before a large audience Monday night in St. Cloud.
(09/19/2006)
The three major-party candidates running for Congress in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District met in their first debate since Tuesday's primary.
(09/15/2006)
Alan Fine is trying to do what Keith Ellison's DFL rivals couldn't: capitalize on reports of Ellison's past. Fine calls Ellison "unfit" to serve.
(09/13/2006)
The seat has been dominated by DFLers for decades, but Ellison's Republican opponent in November says he'll question Ellison's character, a campaign theme that was used over the summer by Ellison's DFL opponents.
(09/13/2006)
As the primary election nears, two of the DFLers running for Congress in Minnesota's 5th District say one of their opponents, Mike Erlandson, has gone negative. Erlandson sent out a mailing asking voters if Keith Ellison is above the law, and if Ember Reichgott Junge is out of touch with the district.
(09/07/2006)
Former DFL Party Chair Mike Erlandson is touting the endorsement of one of the leading critics of the war in Iraq in an attempt to distinguish himself among the DFLers running for Minnesota's 5th Congressional District seat.
(09/01/2006)
Midday hosts a live Minnesota State Fair debate between four of the DFL candidates hoping to succeed U.S. Rep. Martin Sabo in the House of Representatives.
(Midday, 08/24/2006)
The DFL candidates in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District are busy campaigning just weeks before primary election day. Four of them will appear at debate at the Minnesota State Fair with the hopes of attracting DFL support.
(08/24/2006)
President Bush mixed policy and politics into a four and a half hour trip to Minnesota Tuesday.
The president led a panel discussion on health care in Minnetonka and later appeared at a fundraiser for Republican congressional candidate Michele Bachmann in Wayzata.
(08/23/2006)
U.S. Rep. Gil Gutknecht will keep his place on
the Sept. 12 primary election ballot after the state Supreme Court swiftly
turned back a challenge to the petitions he used to qualify.
(08/22/2006)
Increasing crime in Minneapolis is fueling concerns about public safety in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, which includes the city and several suburbs. Candidates in the race for that seat are responding with a string of public safety proposals. One DFLer has even gotten the endorsement of Hennepin County's Republican sheriff.
(08/01/2006)
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