2014 Candidates and Potential Candidates
The following tables are candidates or potential candidates to run against Governor Mark Dayton or Senator Al Franken, depending on the table. To be clear this is not an attempt to rank these candidates or potential candidates in any sort of way, simply to track who is being talked about and who is actually progressing towards candidacy.
All of the columns will be self explanatory except for the “stage” column, which I’ll explain right now.
| Stage | Description |
| -1 | The Persons name has been mentioned by The Great Mentioner |
| 0 | The Person has said they are “mulling/considering/thinking about” running |
| 1 | The Person has formed an exploratory committee or made other such preliminary moves |
| 2 | The Person has formally announced their candidacy and is now a Candidate |
| 3 | The Candidates name will appear on the primary ballot (this will happen even if there is no contested primary, natch) |
| 4 | The Candidates name will appear on the general election ballot, this is the final stage of candidacy |