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...years you are: Late to work...
...minutes you are: Late to class...
...traditionally progressive, populist state that has given the nation such substantive political figures as Harold Stassen, Orville Freeman, Hubert H. Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Walter Mondale braced itself for ridicule, which had already begun. Tuesday night, CBS' Late Show with David Letterman offered its version of Ventura's Top 10 campaign slogans (No. 7: A Man in Tights Has Nothing to Hide; No. 1: It's the Stupidity, Stupid). TV news shows on Wednesday featured clips of Minnesota's Governor-elect from his World Wrestling Federation days, wearing a feather boa and perching on the ring ropes, haranguing screaming fans...
...unforeseen causes and unpredictable consequences. He was the first candidate of Ross Perot's Reform Party to win statewide office. He defeated two respected, if not beloved, career politicians--Republican Norm Coleman, mayor of St. Paul, and Democrat Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III, state attorney general and son of the late Vice President. Ventura's slogan, "Retaliate in '98," seemed an off-key way to appeal to voters in a prosperous and well-governed state with 2.4% unemployment. Retaliate for what...
...negative tone of the campaigns run by both him and Coleman has left many Minnesotans unhappy with their choices and wishing for an alternative. And, of course, this being Minnesota, there is an alternative. Dean Barkley actually held Coleman's Senate seat briefly after Wellstone died in late 2002, having been appointed to the job by then governor Ventura of feather-boa fame. This year Barkley, with virtually no money, is pulling an average of 18% of the vote in the polls as the candidate from the Independence Party (compared with 40% for Franken and 38% for Coleman). "People...