The latest poll in Minnesota was done by Quinnipiac University for Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. It was done before and after the last debate.  Before the debate, Obama was leading McCain 51-43 and after the debate he picked up two points:  51-40. 

 

The same poll has Al Franken ahead of incumbent U.S. Senator Norm Coleman 38-36.  They are essentially running even since the Quinnipiac Poll has an error margin of plus or minus about three points. Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley has 18 percent in Minnesota.  He is actually (former) Senator Barkley since he spent about a month in the Senate at the end of 2002.  Then MN-Gov Jesse Ventura appointed Barkley after the U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone plane tragedy.

 

Trying to shut the barn door after letting the cows out to dirty the yard, Coleman recently announced that his is suspending all negative campaign ads and campaigning. He didn’t tell his friends about this suspension plan and another misleading piece from the Associated Builders and Contractors that bashes Franken hit Minnesota mailboxes in the wake of Coleman’s “heroic” action. This radical anti-worker organization (ABC) has a huge PAC that pays off handsomely to Coleman. Of course, “Coleman said legally he cannot control the strategies of outside political groups, but said he did not want them to run negative ads,” according to a recent Forum Communications news chain story.

 

Senator Norm Coleman is pretty slick, yet it is hard to fathom how he can carry two buckets of Bush’s water while at the same time keeping one finger raised above his shoulder to track the direction of the political winds. But, six years ago, immediately after hearing about the plane tragedy that killed Wellstone and before his own plane touched ground, Coleman was already getting advice from a triad of guardian angels:  [Cheney-Rove-Ashcroft?]. Their goal was to train Coleman to not make the same mistakes then-AG Ashcroft had made two years prior to that (2000). Then-Senator Ashcroft lost his senate seat to a dead man after his opponent, Governor Mel Carahan, was killed in a plane tragedy just weeks before that election. (Recall that the Bush-Cheney-Rove forces chose Coleman over now-MN Governor Tim Pawlenty as their favorite for the GOP candidate to run against Wellstone back in ‘02.)

 

And what did slick-Norm and his changing triad of consultants do in 2002 immediately after the Wellstone plane explosion?  Norm announced he was suspending all campaign activity for a week and then proceeded to hold daily conferences with the news media keeping his mug in the news all “week” long–crocodile tears and all.

 

[An October 28, 2002 New York Times article is available at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00EEDE173FF93BA15753C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 for those wishing to revisit the 2002 MN Senate campaign.]

 

In mid-October of 2008,  Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) candidates are doing well in Minnesota and that trend should continue for Democrats here and across these United States.– barring no tragic October surprises. It currently appears that McCain is circling the drain and taking a lot of Republicans along on the spin.  And the mainstream media is getting brave enough to show Americans the real McCain with no fear of going to DanRatherville.  Desperadoes get more desperate as drowning down the drain draws nearer.

 

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