You are very sleepy. Very sleepy.

Bill Glahn has been one of the best bloggers in Minnesota for a while now and the handy synopsis he published yesterday is right on the money:

We boil down the Sunday Minneapolis Star Tribune Opinion page to its basic message.

Lori Sturdevant:  All of the long-serving Democrat legislators, who occupy safe seats, tell Lori that this has been a quiet election year.  Everyone is just sitting around waiting for the labor unions and lefty billionaire donors to post their new list of demands.

Editorial Board:  The Board suggests voting for Democrat Mark Dayton.  Why?  See above.

There's more at the link and you should read it. In fact, you should have bookmarked Bill a long time ago if you care at all about Minnesota politics. A few observations of my own:

• The Dayton endorsement was expected, of course, even though there's some generous observations made about Jeff Johnson. The Stribbers know that Johnson would be a good governor, but they like the Better Minnesota they've created. And Lori Sturdevant misses the good ol' days, when the only role Republicans had in this state involved offering a few cavils before the DFLers divided up the spoils.
• The race has been sleepy precisely because a lot of people, including the Strib editorial board, aren't particularly interested in having an engaged citizenry. The television stations in town aren't covering the election with much fervor at all in this cycle and the debates are taking place at times when the chances that viewers might actually see them are pretty minimal. Why on earth would you have a debate at 9 a.m. on a Sunday morning? If you didn't want anyone to see it, it would be an excellent time. And if the local stations present a little context-free Johnson said/Dayton said and leave it at that, the rest goes right down the ol' memory hole.
• Hannah Nicollet continues to complain that she is being left out of the debates and announced that she is going to sue Hamline University for keeping her off the stage on Sunday morning. That should get adjudicated a few months after the election is over. What the "major" Independence Party in general, and Hannah Nicollet in particular, are finding out is pretty simple -- now that a Better Minnesota is established, your services are no longer required. Outside of the weird amalgam of aging frat boys and slide rulers who seem to be Nicollet's primary consistency, no one cares about her campaign. When previous IP candidate Tom Horner endorsed Johnson instead of Nicollet, that meant the party was over. I think Hannah has a future if she chooses wisely. I made a modest suggestion last week. 
• Johnson's only chance to win is if the unrest in outstate Minnesota sweeps out Collin Peterson and Rick Nolan. Dayton may have given Johnson a bit of an opening earlier, when he called Johnson a huckster and brought up the ill-fated chopsticks factory that was supposed to help the Iron Range 30 years ago. That raised a few hackles, but it won't matter if the DFL metrocrats can get enough votes in their districts. And that's the only danger for the DFL -- if the populace is too sleepy, there might be enough motivated Republicans in the exurbs and outstate to tip the balance. There's nothing like gay marriage, or another moral vanity vote for Obama, to motivate the bien pensant gang in this cycle. That may prove to be a miscalculation, but we likely won't know until election day.