[MplsSteve]

Here in Minnesota, the story is that Congressman Mark Kennedy will run against Dayton.

Kennedy has always had a top-notch campaign effort in all his elections.

He can raise funds and is a good campaigner.

But Minnesota is still a slight Dem-leaning state and you have to give Dayton a slight advantage...unfortunately.

[Tuxedo]

Dayton could also opt to return to private life.

[dodger]

Has Dayton's yellow-bellied crawl away from his Capitol Hill offices bothered Minnesotans?

[goldstategop]

Only very slight. Norman Coleman can use a colleague. If President Bush will spend political capital to make the Senate even redder, that helps.