Mark Dayton rode a dominating performance in greater Minnesota to a narrow victory in Tuesday's DFL gubernatorial primary, edging party endorsee Margaret Anderson Kelliher by just over 6,500 votes out of over 440,000 cast. One-time House Minority Leader Matt Entenza, who spent over $5 million on his primary campaign, garnered just over 80,000 votes.

The only thing that marks Peter Idusogie's Brooklyn Park office space as a campaign headquarters is a single sign perched in his back window: "Elect Peter Idusogie for governor of Minnesota. People are everything."

Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Rob Hahn is the "$6 billion man," or at least that's the message his new campaign ad is trying to get across.

Session 2010's tempest over whether to take a federal deal that would have jump-started Minnesota's entry to a new federal Medicaid expansion hasn't subsided. It simply followed legislators out the doors of the Capitol and onto the campaign trail.

This chart shows the totals for five major candidates for governor, in the categories of fundraising and campaign expenditures.

Minnesota's open primary system has been known to spawn rumors of strategic crossover voting to monkey-wrench some other party's candidate, and this year the buzz concerns a possible move by elements in the GOP to encourage the faithful to go and vote for Rob Hahn in his gubernatorial primary battle with longtime GOP fixture Tom Horner.

The poll released last Monday by Decision Resources Ltd. contained a lot of troubling findings for Republicans. Most notably, the survey found that all three credible DFL candidates would soundly beat state Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Delano, the GOP’s endorsed candidate.

Tom Horner won the Independence Party's endorsement for governor in convincing fashion on Saturday. An August primary challenge is expected.

Joe Repya, a veteran of the Vietnam and Iraq wars and a former Republican, has registered with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board to seek the Independence Party's endorsement for governor.