Former Vice President Walter Mondale waves to the crowd as Minnesota Secretary of State Judi Dutcher, right rear, and DFL gubernatorial candidate Roger Moe, second from right, applaud after Mondale was endorsed by the DFL Party in Minneapolis, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002, to run for U.S. Senate in place of Sen. Paul Wellstone who died in a plane crash Oct. 25. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)