Two years after their party made historic inroads in a traditionally deep-blue state, Republicans in Minnesota find themselves again looking at a period of rebuilding.
Even if it is defeated, Minnesota's gay-marriage amendment won't help same-sex couples in the state to wed — rather, it will merely stop the ban from being added to the state's constitution, leaving in place a law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
Republicans are poised to win more gubernatorial seats in 2010 than in any election during the past 90 years - a feat that would eclipse the 24 seats won during the "Republican Revolution" of 1994, a new study shows.
