November 12, 2008 - 1:18 pm — Toss up — #1
This race remains to be too close to call. After more ballots were found that helped Franken the Wall Street Journal editorialized this morning that Democrats were trying to steel the election.
October 29, 2008 - 12:36 pm — Leans Democratic — #3
Coleman urged U.S. Sen. John Ensign, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, to destroy the remaining copies of a mailer sent out that hits Franken. According to the Star-Tribune, the mailer calls attention to a column Franken had written in Playboy and accuses of him penning "so-called comedy routines about raping women"
October 27, 2008 - 12:58 pm — Leans Democratic — #5
Speaking to a forum at the University of Minnesota, Coleman said he hopes he is able to return to Washington after the election to be a part of comprehensive energy reform he predicts will be acted upon early next year, according to the Bemidji Pioneer.
October 24, 2008 - 11:54 am — Leans Democratic — #5
During a campaign rally at the University of Minnesota, Sen. Hillary Clinton made an appearance to stump on the behalf of Coleman,
according to the Star Tribune. She outlined the importance of
obtaining a 60-vote majority in Congress.
"Unless we reach 60 votes in the Senate, we won't end the Bush era," Clinton said. "Al Franken, with your help, can be our 60th vote in the United States Senate.
October 22, 2008 - 1:05 pm — Leans Democratic — #2
The fourth debate featuring the Minnesota Senate candidates is set to happen on Friday, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. According to the paper, a recent Quinnipiac University poll gives a slight edge to Franken with 38 percent of the vote, while Coleman has 36 percent.
October 20, 2008 - 4:29 pm — Leans Republican — #2
The race is not going in the right direction for Norm Coleman in a state that Barack Obama will carry by a comfortable margin. When incumbents find themselves behind in the polls, its often tough to come back.
October 16, 2008 - 12:01 pm — Toss up — #6
Politicker.com national columnist Reid Wilson discusses how negative advertising may have partially lead to Coleman’s sinking poll numbers. Coleman's negative campaign "wasn't getting him anywhere in the numbers. The nastier he got, he kind of looked like McCain did last week: The economy's in the tank, and voters said, 'This isn't what we want to hear about, " said Franken spokeswoman Colleen Murray.
October 10, 2008 - 10:56 am — Toss up — #4
The latest Rasmussen Reports poll shows Franken leading 43 percent to 37 percent.
October 7, 2008 - 10:43 am — Toss up — #1
A poll conducted by the Star-Tribune indicates Franken has jumped up to a sizable lead over Coleman and that Dean Barkley, and Independent candidate who served as U.S. senator for a short time after the death of Democrat Paul Wellstone, is taking in a significant segment of the vote at 18 percent.
According to the poll, Franken leads Coleman by a 43 to 34 percent margin.
September 30, 2008 - 12:16 pm — Toss up — #1
The Associated Press is reporting that a planned debate between Coleman, Franken, an Barkley - the race's Independent candidate - will take place next Sunday in Rochester. AP also notes that in a recent poll, Barkley was polling at 13 percent.
September 26, 2008 - 11:24 am — Toss up — #1
A story in the Star-Tribune notes that the television ad campaign between Coleman and Franken is increasing in the number of negative ads that are run against the two candidates. The story calls attention to a pair of specific ads - a Coleman ad that shows videos of Franken swearing, and a Franken ad that shows the mother of an Iraq soldier blaming Coleman for the death of her son.
September 23, 2008 - 10:23 am — Toss up — #1
A Quinnipiac/Wall Street Journal/WashingtonPost.com poll shows this Minnesota race is, in fact, a close one.
Coleman leads Franken 49-42 in this poll. Other polls suggest this race is much closer.
September 18, 2008 - 5:23 pm — Toss up — #1
A Star Tribune poll shows Coleman barely in the lead against Franken, but the more interesting aspect is that indepedent candidate Dean Barkley collected 14 percent.
This isn't the first time that Barkley, the one time U.S. Senator, has received double-digits and he could well decide this race.
September 16, 2008 - 1:00 pm — Toss up — #1
This week appears to a bad one for Coleman. In addition to a Star Tribune poll that says Coleman's lead over Franken has slipped to just four percentage points, Roll Call is reporting that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is using a family in an attack ad whose son was killed in Iraq against Coleman.
"I don't blame the Army for our son's death," says Nancy Anderson, the mother of her deceased son, Army Maj. Stuart Anderson. "I just blame the bad policies on President Bush, Norm Coleman, who voted for this."
September 10, 2008 - 12:24 am — Toss up — #1
Coleman and Franken both won their respective party primaries on Sept. 9.
September 8, 2008 - 2:46 pm — Toss up — #1
Both Franken and Coleman are expected to prevail in Minnesota's Tuesday primary, which featured a total of 18 candidates, WCCO reports. Coleman only faces one primary challenger.
August 26, 2008 - 11:10 pm — Toss up — #1
According to the Associated Press, Coleman gave a speech at his re-election headquarters outlining that oil drilling on the outer continental shelf would generate funds that could be invested into alternative energy technologies.
Franken's campaign quickly attacked Coleman's pledge for alternative energy as disingenuous, saying that Coleman hasn't made moves toward alternative energy in the past six years.
August 17, 2008 - 3:09 pm — Leans Republican — #6
The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association has endorsed Coleman, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports.
August 15, 2008 - 3:23 pm — Leans Republican — #6
The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is asking the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate whether Coleman's non-payment of utility bills for 12 months at his Capitol Hill apartment constitutes a violation of the Senate's gift ban, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. The DFL has asked that the matter be added to an earler complaint filed by the Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington watchdog group about Coleman's living arrangement with a Republican businessman and operative in the nation's capital.
August 15, 2008 - 11:32 am — Leans Republican — #6
Franken and Coleman are both headed to East Grand Forks in the next few days to talk energy, the economy and other issues of local concern according to the Grand Forks Herald. Franken will be at East Grand Station from 11:45 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. today to talk about "planting the seeds for Minnesota's energy economy." Thursday, Franken was in Thief River Falls to talk about his plans for change in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, and before that, he talked about his proposals for new energy at the Minnesota Rural Electric Association Annual Energy Issues Summit in St. Cloud.
August 11, 2008 - 3:18 pm — Leans Republican — #6
After his dismal appearance at a county fair, Franken picked up a critical endorsement from U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
According to the paper, McCollum, who has had differences with Franken in the past, put aside her feelings in an effort to get as many Democrats as possible in office to address problems related to health care, the economy and the Iraq war.
August 9, 2008 - 2:47 pm — Leans Republican — #6
In what could be seen as an attempt by a longshot third party candidate to get a piece of the media pie, Dean Barkley released 'Brett Favre for Minnesota Quarterback' campaign signs prior to the news that Favre would be headed to the New York Jets.
August 7, 2008 - 1:40 pm — Leans Republican — #6
According to an article in the Minneapolis Post, Franken struggled in his first election season debate against a crowd that heavily favored Coleman at Farmfest.
While Franken's attempts to tie Coleman to the Bush administration fell flat with the crowd, Coleman's suggestion that gas prices have doubled since Nancy Pelosi has become U.S. House speaker were met with a roaring applause.
August 1, 2008 - 8:05 am
Coleman announced that he will donote the $20,000 he has been giving over the years from U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens' political action committee to a charity doing childhood cancer research.
The action comes after Democrat Al Franken put out a radio ad highlighting the fact that Coleman visited with Alaska three times during his tenure in the Senate.
July 16, 2008 - 3:46 pm
Former Gov. Jesse Ventura's decision this week not to run for this seat is great news for Democrat Al Franken, but that isn't stopping Democrats from being worried about his chances. Even a former Franken contributor, Priscilla Lord Faris, filed to run against Franken in the upcoming primary because, "We (the DFL) should be winning this race against Norm Coleman and we aren't."
Al Franken better pray Jack Shepard BEATS Norm Coleman GOP PRIM
Minnesota Labor endorsed DFL U.S. Senate Candidate Al Franken better begin to start praying that I, Jack Shepard eliminate Norm Coleman from the Minnesota U.S. Senate Race in the GOP Primary on Sept. 9, 2008.
Because without the removal of Sen. Norm Coleman from the U.S. Senate the Employee Free Choice Act, Healthcare, Medicare, programs stimulated our inner cities and many other Act’s to ease the suffering of the Working Families of Minnesota will never become law because Sen. Norm Coleman will continue to filibuster and vote against these and other Acts that I would call emergency aid programs for the America Working family whose situation has turn from a economist slowdown into an Economic Disaster
Jack Shepard is the only candidate running against Sen. Norm Coleman in the GOP Minnesota U.S. Senate Primary on September 9, 2008.
DFL endorsed U.S. Senate Candidate Al Franken Race against incumbent Senator Norm Coleman is in big trouble, No one knows what Al Franken polling numbers are if Al Franken was to run against Jack Shepard in the Minnesota General Election in November.
I just do not see how the Union Workers of Minnesota can let Norm Coleman get re-elected when Steve Hunter, secretary-treasurer of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, recently at a new conference called on Coleman to change his ways and put working families first. "Sen. Coleman isn't standing with working families," Hunter said. "He's standing on their throats “Norm Coleman is standing on their “Working families of Minnesota’s” Throats:” The true facts are Sen. Norm Coleman is a smooth talker, “rapid-fire style, words pouring smoothly from his lips” and is very believable. There is no reason to think that with Norm Coleman's low ratings that he is a shoe in. You have to admit in Minnesota Norm Coleman popularity is still below 50% at best in people who support him.
As the working families of Minnesota know, Senator Norm Coleman has a long record of voting against health care legislation to benefit working families, voted against the Employee Free Choice Act, voted against increases in Healthcare, vote against increases in funding for Medicare.
If you wish a Pro-Labor and Anti-Iraqi War Senator that will work for you; the People of Minnesota and not like senator Norm Coleman work for the Big Business, Big Oil, Big Insurance, Big Pharmaceuticals; you are going to have to eliminate Sen. Norm Coleman from the U.S. Senate, by using me and voting for me, Jack Shepard on September 9, 2008 in the GOP U.S. Senate Primary rather then vote for Senator Norm Coleman.
I am running in the Sept. 9, 2008 Minnesota GOP U.S. Senate Primary only to eliminate Senator Norm Coleman. As a disabled Veteran or as an unemployed veteran you know you are not getting the medical care you need because Sen. Norm Coleman voted against necessary increases in Medical spending for our troops and veteran.
If you wish to help the environment you know that Norm Coleman voted against it until the 2006 election. If you care about our security on buses, trains, airplanes, ports etc. you know Norm Coleman voted against it for them until the 2006 election.
I say, we say it is time to say No to your re-election Senator Norm Coleman; it's time you were held accountable for your votes and we are going to vote against you to have you removed from the U. S. Senate on Sept. 9, 2008 in your GOP Primary the first chance we get.
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