I live in Minnesota.
Norm Coleman ran one of the worst campaigns I’ve ever seen. it. The tone of his campaign was much like that of his six years in the Senate - empty and shallow. Even before his re-election campaign, you never saw him out there shaking hands and just hob-nobbing with voters.
Now I really do not care for Amy Klobuchar (our other Senator) but she’s always in the news - showing up at the State Fair, doing consituent efforts that gain favorable press, etc.
Many voters remember that. That remember when “Gosh, do you remember when Amy Klobuchar showed up to award old Joe McHenry the Silver Star he never got in Korea?”
If Coleman had put 1/4 of the effort into his re-election as Klobuchar did, he’d have won hands-down over Franken. That election, even here in liberal Minnesota, should never have been close.
True. Coleman is lucky that he faced Walter Mondale in 2002 other than Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash like Mel Carnahan in Missouri in 2000.
Wellstone, had he lived, would have beaten Coleman badly. Coleman was always a weak senator. Few bills into law.