GOP Governor Candidate Tom Emmer Concerned About Redistricting and Michele Bachmann

New York Times:

For those running in these governors’ races, the national ramifications rarely seem far from view. “This is really a 10-year election,” Tom Emmer, a Republican candidate for governor in Minnesota, said as he rode toward Duluth in a 32-foot R.V. while campaigning recently before Tuesday’s primary. Some Midwestern states are expected to lose seats in Congress under the redrawing of political districts that will follow the 2010 census, making the decisions about how these districts are redrawn of particular concern.

“If the Democrats win the governor’s office, they will be in charge of redistricting Minnesota, and you can almost guarantee that they will try to squeeze out Michele Bachmann’s Congressional district in that equation,” Mr. Emmer said, referring to Representative Bachmann, a conservative Republican who recently started a Tea Party Caucus in Congress.