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Using tragedy for political gain Posted: October 30, 20022:17 p.m. Eastern© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com The wind has changed, and Democrats across the country are worried. The crowds greeting the president on his campaign stops have been large and enthusiastic, and GOP determination not to get out-hustled by union muscle is evident in busloads of volunteers driving off to various tight races around the country. Add to the volunteer energy the large hard-money edge and the location of the tight Senate races in largely Bush 2000 states like Georgia, South Dakota and New Hampshire, and Republican leaders are optimistic about retaining the House and...

Ordinarily, Minnesota and New Jersey have little in common other than a mutual penchant for liberal politics. This year, however, it seems they share a mutual problem: the hasty departure of incumbent Democrat candidates for the Senate, necessitating replacements with name recognition with known political positions. To be fair, nobody could have predicted the untimely death of Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.), and in this case the need for a quick replacement is readily understood. But the Jersey Democrats should have seen it coming with regard to Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.). Toward the end, The Torch was carrying so much baggage...

<p>The sad days since Paul and Sheila Wellstone's deaths have stirred the best of the Minnesota character. With only a few exceptions, Minnesotans have responded to the unprecedented demise of a major candidate 11 days before an election with grace, fortitude and a willingness to serve the common good.</p>

Signed by 1.65 million Japanese citizens, the petition was presented to President Clinton on November 22, 1993 by the parents of Yoshihiro Hattori, who had just finished a year-long gun control campaign throughout the United States. The Brady Bill, which mandates a five-day waiting period and background check for those who want to buy a handgun, was enacted by the U.S. Congress just days later. At a December 3, 1993 meeting in Nagoya, Ambassador Mondale thanked the Hattoris for their efforts in America which he said had contributed to the bill's passage. The ambassador gave them a copy of the...

<p>Gov. Ventura will meet with his staff and lawyers this afternoon about how to handle the vacancy created by the death of Sen. Paul Wellstone.</p> <p>Ventura's spokesman, John Wodele, says the governor hopes to decide by Monday morning -- if not sooner -- how he'll proceed.</p>

EVELETH, Minn., Oct. 25 — Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., was killed along with seven other people, including his wife and daughter, in the crash of a small plane Friday. With the election just 11 days away, the death of one of the leading liberals in Congress stirred even greater uncertainty into the already tight battle for control of the Senate. WELLSTONE, FIRST elected to the Senate in 1990, his wife, Sheila, and his adult daughter, Marcia, were passengers on a twin-engine turboprop that crashed east of the Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, said Lisa Pattni, an aide who was at the crash...

Filed at 5:50 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats who cast what some considered a politically risky vote -- opposing the resolution authorizing use of force against Iraq -- are getting a financial reward for their troubles. MoveOnPAC.org, an Internet site, raised more than $1 million this week for four members of Congress that the group calls ``heroes.'' The biggest recipient is Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., who hauled in nearly $600,000 after the MoveOn Web site started soliciting donations on Monday, said Wes Boyd, who co-founded the San Francisco-based site and serves as treasurer of its political action committee. Democratic...

Send A Student To Minnesota!DSA’s national electoral project this year is the Minnesota Senate Election. Together with YDS, DSA’s Youth Section, we are mobilizing to bring young people to Minnesota. Minnesota is one of the few states that allow same day voter registration. We will therefore focus our energy on registering young Minnesotans. Wellstone will need a high percentage of young people to register and vote for him if he is to stave off the campaign that Bush, the Republicans and the Greens are waging against him. He is the Right’s Number One electoral target. Because we are focusing...

Democrats face an uphill battle to recapture control of the House in November's midterm elections, while Republicans have marginally improved their position in what remains a tense and wide-open fight for control of the Senate, according to party strategists, independent analysts and current polls. September has seen Republican prospects brighten, particularly in New Jersey, where ethics problems have called into question what once seemed solid reelection prospects for Sen. Robert G. Torricelli, the most vulnerable Democrat in the nation. Republicans also have increased their chances of retaining the Senate seat in New Hampshire. And because of a controversy over a...

Winds of war stirring U.S. Senate races Candidates have difficulty gauging how Iraq will affect election 09/28/2002 By DAVID JACKSON / The Dallas Morning News INDIANOLA, Iowa As 2,000 of U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's best Democratic friends swayed to the beat of a country band and munched on Iowa beef, the prospect of war with Saddam Hussein seemed as far away as Iraq itself. Certainly Mr. Harkin hopes so. Hosting his annual steak fry at a farm country fairground, the Democrat seeking his fourth Senate term said voters know that both parties will do whatever they can to protect...

<p>Teddy Roosevelt and Paul Wellstone. A strange pairing, it would seem. The New York patrician vs. the Minnesota populist, the haughty Harvard boy vs. the lowly college prof, the prowar progressive vs. the antiwar protester, the Rough Rider vs. the Pentagon derider, the feisty insider who became a third party outsider vs. the even feistier outsider-turned-senatorial insider, the boxer-Republican vs. the wrestler-Democrat.</p>

<p>The Minnesota Green Party has decided to take on that symbol of Washington power and bipartisan consensus, incumbent Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone.</p> <p>Paul Wellstone? Currently in the fight of his political life against his Republican challenger, former St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman, Wellstone is the Senate's most left-wing member. In the past year, he's fought hard to prevent drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and he's pushed for fuel efficiency, safe drinking water and clean, renewable energy. It's hard to imagine any environmentalist regarding him as Public Enemy No. 1.</p>

Greens running against Democrats, and maybe giving Republicans the edge? Anyone who thinks we'll have to wait till the Bush-Gore rematch in 2004 to get into that can of worms had better look at Minnesota this year. Here's Senator Paul Wellstone bidding for a third term, with the tiny Democratic majority in the Senate as the stake. Writing in The Nation, John Nichols sets the bar even higher. "His race," Nichols wrote tremulously this spring, "is being read as a measure of the potency of progressive politics in America." Wellstone's opponent is Norm Coleman, former mayor of St. Paul and...