As you've all heard ad nausea, ROAR was trying to introduce airport noise into the Senate primary. I thought people would be interested in some results: ROAR used email and events to drive voters to Dayton and Ciresi because they were the candidates who had specific plans for attacking the pollution in Washington. This Senate campaign ended up being almost all about multi million dollar ad campaigns, but it does seem there is at least some evidence that Ciresi benefited from airport support. In virtually every congressional district in the state, Ciresi got about 22% of the vote....this includes the 5th with Minneapolis. But the only place you see a surge for him is in wards across the southern 1/3 of the city...where his totals went up into the 30-35% range. This, of course, is where we were most organized. It seems he got those votes at the expense of Janezich. By comparison Ciresi was running in the low 20s in the northern part of the city, and lower in some of the suburban parts of the district. He was also in the low 20s in areas like southeast Minneapolis, which, under normal conditions, don't have significantly different voting patterns than the southwestern part of the city. Dayton's numbers are almost universally at 40% across the state so it's hard to say much about who had what effect. I'm a real novice at reading all these figures so someone else may be better at this but I think in a race where there were very very few grass roots success stories, ROAR can at least say it had a role. R.T. Rybak East Harriet
