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...after Paul Wellstone--a wiry 5-ft. 5-in. ex--college professor, liberal ideologue, professional agitator and extreme long shot--unseated an incumbent Senator in an election no one thought he could win, he sat down for breakfast with one of the few Establishment politicians he genuinely admired. Fellow Minnesotan and former Vice President Walter Mondale congratulated Wellstone on the upset but warned that the aggressiveness Wellstone had shown on the campaign trail (he starred in a series of Roger & Me--inspired ads in which he stalked his opponent) might not go over well on Capitol Hill. "Remember," said Mondale...
...stop wearing visors,” he says of his God Loves Ugly tour, currently roaming the East Coast. “Sometimes they wear them upside down. We gotta get kids to stop wearing them; they’re ridiculous.” With the growing audience the Minnesotan emcee now commands, such a noble cause may yet come to fruition...
With that in mind, it appears that Minnesota Democrats are lining up former Vice President Walter Mondale to ride the wave of support for old-fashioned Minnesotan liberalism. Wellstone had just started pulling away in the polls, and Democrats can only hope that absence makes the votes grow fonder. When John F. Kennedy ’40 was shot in 1963, his public approval ratings skyrocketed from the nadir of his presidency. In an eerily similar chain of events, Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash within days of Missouri’s 2001 senatorial election, and his wife...
...after Paul Wellstone - a wiry 5-ft. 5-in. ex-college professor, liberal ideologue, professional agitator and extreme long shot - unseated an incumbent Senator in an election no one thought he could win, he sat down for breakfast with one of the few Establishment politicians he genuinely admired. Fellow Minnesotan and former Vice President Walter Mondale congratulated Wellstone on the upset but warned that the aggressiveness Wellstone had shown on the campaign trail (he starred in a series of Roger & Me-inspired ads in which he stalked his opponent) might not go over well on Capitol Hill. "Remember," said Mondale...
...find a vibrant, beautiful 60-year-old on your cover," wrote a California woman. "I'm framing this dazzling picture as something to live up to as I near Pierres' age." But another Golden State sister was less impressed, declaring that "Pierres has obviously overdosed on Miami sunshine." A Minnesotan agreed. "Pierres needs to wear sunscreen and a hat, get a new hairdo and then have a more flattering photograph taken...