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If Mondale had won in 84 I believe the Soviet Union would still be alive today as would their rule of Eastern Europe. Gorbachev would have been welcomed as a God to American liberals and offered loans and money to keep their empire in Eastern Europe and his power in Russia by the Liberals! We would have pulled our missles out of Western Europe and the Soviet Union would be alive today with western capital financing their corrupt rule!

<p>Minnesota Republicans said Tuesday that they made the greatest election gains of any state party in the nation last week, picking up the governor's and state auditor's offices, one seat each in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, and 15 seats in the Legislature.</p>

<p>The market for secondhand items from Sen. Paul Wellstone's campaign is heating up on EBay.</p> <p>As of yesterday afternoon, there were more than 60 items for sale, including a program from his memorial service, which had a high bid of more than $30..</p>

Excerpt from a long tick-tock on the Senatorial election in Minnesota. See earlier thread: "13 Days." The Republicans are the stupid party no more. This is adroit politicking, and takes extreme discipline to carry off. Coleman did it. Even as he drives to the Republican strategy meeting, (Vin) Weber tries to think clinically, to "establish a data base line." An eerily similar tragedy occurred just two years earlier in the Missouri Senate race. Democrat Mel Carnahan and his son died in a plane crash three weeks before the election. Carnahan's name stayed on the ballot and -- with the governor...

<p>Norm Coleman is at a loggers' rally. Walter Mondale is at a political fundraiser. Paul Wellstone is airborne.</p> <p>Everything is about to change.</p> <p>At a luncheon at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Minneapolis, a colleague tells Minneapolis attorney David Lillehaug of reports that a plane chartered by the Wellstone campaign has crashed.</p>

Walter Mondale, speaking graciously to a roomful of disappointed supporters last week, made a stunning statement–at least as far as American politics is concerned. "I take responsibility for this result. It's on my shoulders," he said. "This is the way it should be." Let's compare this adult reaction with the post-election statement made by Democratic Party chief Terry McAuliffe. "If the Republicans had an edge over us . . . it was tactical rather than ideological," he complained, and then went on to whine about a popular GOP president who had the temerity to campaign for his own candidates. Then...

<p>Rick Kahn, the eulogist for U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone who ignited a firestorm of protest after his impassioned (and some said partisan) memorial speech, does not regret his words that night, saying they were not a political rallying call but a cry from the heart.</p>

ST. PAUL, MINN. (Reuters) - Former Vice President Walter Mondale conceded defeat on Wednesday in the Minnesota race for the U.S. Senate, sending Republican Norm Coleman to Congress and giving President Bush's Republicans at least a two-seat margin in the chamber. "A few minute ago I called Senator-elect Norm Coleman to congratulate him on his success," Mondale told supporters. Only days ago, Mondale had stepped into the highly competitive race after Sen. Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash while campaigning for re-election. Mondale was considered a strong contender after he was chosen by Democrats to replace Wellstone who died...

Looking at MN Secretary of State Office website, I see that the late Paul Wellstone has garnered 11,766 at this point, easily enough to make up the difference between Sen. Coleman and Still-A-Loser Mondale. Expect litigation, here, folks.

At 6AM eastern, KDKA radio Pittsburgh reports COleman confrimed winner over Fritz Mondale in Minnesota...

The old fossil was just on Fox News practically declaring victory...saying that with 8% of the precincts in "they were the most wonderful precincts" or some such thing. I've been watching CNN and FoxNew's web site, and the senile old twit has never been even close to ahead. Can a Minnesotan clue me in?

So if Mondale loses, will he be the biggest loser of all times? He lost 49 states in '84. Would he be the only person to lose all 50?

Jim Angle on FOXnews just said he has heard that the White House believes Coleman to be the winner in Minnesota.

If anyone’s interested, here’s my take on the debate: a draw. I listened to it, winced, sighed, yawned. Coleman was often too nice - I can’t hear these calls for a “new tone” without thinking A) he’s pitching this at those who believe nothing in particular, and hence distrust anyone who does, or B) he’s going to be devoured like a limping rabbit who wanders into a wolf den. He made a good point about taxes - he said to Mondale that when you begin with the assumption that you’re going to raise taxes, well, that’s what you’ll do. But...

<p>Walter Mondale and Norm Coleman kept campaigning after the polls opened today, hoping to swing enough voters to tip Minnesota's tight U.S. Senate election their way.</p> <p>Mondale arrived at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Minneapolis at 7:30 a.m. but had to wait in a long line for about 25 minutes. Once inside, he got a smattering of applause, and there was some laughter when a polling official asked the Democratic former vice president, senator and ambassador, ``What's your name?''</p>

<p>With an aggressiveness that he had refrained from in the previous four days of his campaign, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Walter Mondale went after Republican Norm Coleman on Monday, calling him "the guy who ran the trashiest campaign in modern American history."</p>

THE REAL MONDALE According to a longtime Washington political insider, word from Minnesota is that Walter Mondale last spring commissioned private polls to determine how well he'd do in a primary against Sen. Paul Wellstone.

FIGURATIVE DROOL Mia T , 11-05-02 MINNESOTANS WORRIED about an anthrax attack at the Mall of America can relax. Walter Mondale is on the case. "Don't worry about me and terrorism," he declared in the Minnesota Senate debate Monday morning. "I'm opposed to it. Well, He Didn't Drool . . . Walter Mondale stumbles through his Monday morning "conversation" / The Daily Standard | 11-4-02 | by Stephen F. Hayes Perhaps Mondale didn't drool, literally, but the stuff that spewed forth--non sequiturs, petitio principii, imagined laurels, ideological black holes, time warps, warped priorities-- was drivel nonetheless. It was downright...

Walter Mondale was the KGB's favorite presidential candidate when he ran against Ronald Reagan in 1984, long secret Soviet files reveal. Mondale, now the Democrat's retread candidate for the U.S. Senate to replace the late Paul Wellstone got a lot of help from the Soviet KGB when he ran against Reagan, who the KGB's Kremlin bosses feared and were determined to beat, says author Peter Schweizer. Schweizer is the author of the new best selling book "Reagan's War." He reveals that the KGB ran a disinformation campaign in their covert efforts to influence the media and secure the election for...

<p>In a final full day of campaigning Monday, DFL gubernatorial candidate Roger Moe tried to reach a wide range of voters, from union members to immigrants to downtown Minneapolis commuters during the evening rush hour.</p> <p>Moe spoke to senior citizens at a Columbia Heights high rise, visited the dozens of ethnic restaurants that dot Nicollet Av. between 26th and 28th streets and took center stage with Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Walter Mondale at a noon rally at Peavey Plaza on the Nicollet Mall. The rally also included the band Soul Asylum and actress Jessica Lange, who lives in Stillwater.</p>