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MINNESOTA Norm Coleman...
While this may be the norm at Harvard, it was certainly a shock for me. After spending four years of high school attending University of Michigan football games, I had an expectation of what the “student section” at games should look, sound and smell like. A college football game meant crowds of students in insignia apparel standing up to watch the crucial moments, constant cheering, the ringing of keys and the smell of sweat and alcohol permeating the air. A typical Harvard game attracts a sprinkling of undergrads in H-Club t-shirts, clumps...
Abortion likely cost the Democrats Minnesota, and thus the Senate. Former Vice President Walter Mondale accused Senator-Elect Norm Coleman of being an “Arbitrary Pro-Lifer.” Coleman then invited Mondale to join him in supporting a ban on partial birth abortions and a requirement for parental notification in cases of child pregnancy (legislation that the vast majority of Minnesotans support). Mondale stumbled for an answer, likely afraid to move from the rigid ideological position dictated by supporters of abortion rights. Democrats who are opponents of abortion heard Mondale’s views loud...
...remote so he could hear what Boschwitz had to say. Angry that a Wellstone memorial service last week turned into a partisan political rally, Minnesota's unpredictable Gov. Jesse Ventura last Monday appointed independent Dean Berkley to fill Wellstone's seat until the senator-elect (Republican Norm Coleman) was sworn in next year. And Berkley wasn't telling anyone yet whether he'd side with the Democrats or the Republicans during his temporary duty...
...backlash against the politically charged service almost certainly helped Norm Coleman beat Walter Mondale for Wellstone's Minnesota Senate seat. And a private poll by Bill Clinton's former pollster, Mark Penn, suggests the service backfired on Democrats nationally as well...