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...Klobuchar was a swing voter this year. At the outset of the 2008 race, the 48-year-old Senator from Minnesota was exactly the kind of voter Hillary Clinton's campaign was counting on. Women a generation older would be safely in their camp. Younger women would be susceptible to Obamamania. Clinton's team thought that those in Klobuchar's demographic--professional, well-educated women who came of age during the modern women's movement--would be moved by the very real opportunity to put one of their own in the White House...
...traditional Republican base in 2004? John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, flatly declares that what got Obama the nomination "is not a general-election strategy" and contends that Obama's operation will be weak against McCain's crossover appeal in such states as Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nevada...
...NCAA Tournament, completing an undefeated season at Bright Hockey Center.That win, the 300th career victory for Stone, earned the Crimson a trip to Duluth, Minn. to play Wisconsin in the national semifinals.Unfortunately, this fairytale didn’t have the happiest of endings. Harvard fell, 4-1, in Minnesota, as the Badgers handed the Crimson a season-ending loss for the second consecutive year.“Of course, it’s tough to lose in that situation, and for me, I really felt that this was my best shot at winning a national championship. I was really convinced...
...this year. Ali is beginning an M.D./Ph.D. program at Yale next year, and they plan to live together soon. She described their four years together as “pretty basic.” However, their impending wedding, scheduled for July 2009 in Ali’s native Minnesota, will be anything but basic. “It’s been an interesting process to figure out how we’re going to do things,” Ali said of the nuptials. A second-generation Bangladeshi Muslim, she will be stirring her religious and cultural heritage...
...Among the adoptable children, 44% are white and 43% are black. But 67% of all families waiting to adopt are white, and many of them are eager to take a black child. The hurdles, however, are often formidable. Though only three states--Arkansas, California and Minnesota--have laws promoting race matching in adoptions, 40 others favor the practice...