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Bos'un's Mate
04/15/09

In reply to New York Times Discovers Political Unrest In Far-Off 'Minnesota'
Maybe Norm will give up the fight if offered the chairmanship of the Ely 2016 Winter Olympics bid.

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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
04/15/09

In reply to New York Times Discovers Political Unrest In Far-Off 'Minnesota'
"he begins each day with ritual Jewish morning prayer"

wtf???????
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TheUptightMidwesterner
04/15/09

In reply to New York Times Discovers Political Unrest In Far-Off 'Minnesota'
Fucking leave Kottke out of this!!!
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Truculent
04/15/09

In reply to New York Times Discovers Political Unrest In Far-Off 'Minnesota'
Do recall that this is a state where Walter Mondale, Hubert Humphrey, Jesse Ventura, and Louie Anderson are worshipped as gods. People genuflect when they say Mondale's name. So this craziness is nothing new.
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TheUptightMidwesterner
04/15/09

@Truculent: Um...we haven't liked Louie Anderson since 1990. I think there was an official declaration in the City Pages or something.
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Heneage
04/15/09

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Oh, Alex...Don't you miss living in the land of snow and ice? Waiting for the #4 bus to take you downtown when it's -22 and you've got on your flannel-lined khakis. The garish hollidazzle costumes. Dayton's 8th floor display. Jesse's feathered boas. Being jealous that all the kids in Rochester got the day off school but you didn't because your city has snow plows. The mosquitoes.
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Pareene
04/15/09

@Heneage: chainsmoking at uncommon grounds when i was too young to get into bars! drinking on the railroad bridge in the middle of the night! fucking freezing to death on chicago and lake at what were in retrospect really sketchy hours to be hanging out there waiting for the 5! it truly was a magical time.
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youareasleep
04/15/09

@Pareene: Wait--there are non-sketchy hours at Chicago and Lake? As a former cashier at Chicago-Lake Liquors (oh boy the stories I got), I can tell you there are none.
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nirreskeya
04/15/09

@youareasleep: Meh. Blaisdell and Lake is where it's at.
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youareasleep
04/15/09

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The only reason Coleman got the job in the first place was because in 2002 he was running against Paul Wellstone who died in a plane crash that year during the campaign. After Wellstone's death the Dems tried to run Mondale against Coleman, but unfortunately Mondale appeared to be about 100 years old, so Coleman kind of took it on default. Nobody really liked him, and local papers often referred to him as "Bush Boy." The whole wife-in-California thing has always been creepy. Get out man! Minnesota loves eccentrics in politics, but we do have the sense to become embarrassed... Eventually.
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Joy_Rebar
04/15/09

@youareasleep: I'm glad you brought that up--Norm has clearly forgotten that he was not elected to the Senate on his own merits. But I don't think he really believes that there's a thousand miscounted Norm votes stashed somewhere in the outstate. He's just obeying orders to keep one more Democrat out of the Senate as long as legally possible. Since he's ruined his already tepid reputation as a public figure, serving the GOP underhandedly is his best (if not only) shot at having a career after this is over. And he needs a career. He's underwater on his mortgage.
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badasscat
04/15/09

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Risk leaving a sore loser legacy? I think he crossed that rubicon sometime when it was still 2008.
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BxgrlJeri
04/15/09

@badasscat: agreed
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smithhimself
04/15/09

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Actually, I think the Minnesota passion for ice fishing has a lot to do with this.

A fair amount of the male population spends days and nights alone in their little shacks, staring at holes in the ice. It leads to obsessive, wacky, stubborn thoughts.

Also a great deal of drinking...
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hamburgerhotdog
04/15/09

@smithhimself: It's either that or alone in a tree stand.
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BxgrlJeri
04/15/09

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So Pawlenty thinks that the national electorate would vote for him after he screws Minnesota into the ground?

Yes, Tim, we want to give you a big stage on which to play petty partisan politics.
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LHO
04/15/09

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You people have no clue unless you live here...

/sigh
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Mediahohoho
04/15/09

@LHO: I'll take Pareene's word for it: he's a Minnesotan to the bone, doncha know.
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Mount_Prion
04/15/09

@LHO: The nerve of you. How dare you call us people "you people".
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NefariousNewt
11/03/08

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We've slogged through the morass of remembrances today in order to answer the meta-question that really matters: what did this campaign mean to the media?

Why? Who cares? The media dropped the ball throughout the campaign. Too much deference was shown to some. Reporting was thin on real issues. Minor points were made into mountains. For all the screaming from the right about "liberal bias," I tend to think there was none, just a lot of pencil-pushers trying to make deadline with trite words and incomprehensible tracts on pointless issues.

If the media learns anything from the postmortem of this campaign, it's that next time, they need to suck it up and be more like journalists and less like puppets.
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ADismalScience
11/03/08

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Wars and Elections are the flooding of the Nile for the MSM. Tide's going back out. Famine ahead.
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MrInBetween
11/03/08

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Nagourney and Wolfson scampering around Des Moines on Christmas night hunting for dinner, and ending up eating Peking Duck, would make a campy holiday film. Pitch it as "Two Jews Do X-Mas." Starring Adam Sandler as Wolfson and Jon Favreau as Wolfson.
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naugahydeinplainsight
11/03/08

@MrInBetween: "Oy to the World."
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MrInBetween
11/03/08

@naugahydeinplainsight: Perfect.
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PandoraSpocks
11/03/08

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This just in: "the tank" has announced it is supporting Obama, but can't figure out if its polling place is in Cleveland Park or Eastern Market.
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Seeräuber Jenny
11/03/08

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But they needed an outsider who could say about this godforsaken campaign, presumably with a straight face, "that we have, if anything, undervalued and even lost sight of its significance at times."

That one was immediately stashed in my archive of Articles I'm Never Going to Read Because They Must Be Kidding.
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