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To: jbe who wrote (14354)	11/11/1998 3:52:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) of 67261

OT - MN Election articles James Lileks is one of my favorites. He also has a 3 times a week column in the S3P&D (St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch). He does a Saturday afternoon radio show on a station that Jesse used to do a morning drive time show. I listen if I'm in the car or doing a radio compatible project. He also has a web page and his show is web cast. He pretty much captured the essence of the election in this piece. I think the vote total actually underestimates the real support Jesse had. Many more people would have vote for him but didn't want to "waste" their vote. The polls were utterly bogus. A month before the election Skip was shown to have a 20 point lead over Coleman and Jesse hardly showed up. The week before the election Skip had was 5 points ahead of Coleman and Jesse was about 10 points behind Skip. If we are going to suspend the first amendment for the sake of campaign finance reform anyway, we really ought to ban these travesties too. From the article: Skip bobs and chatters and fists the air like he's goosing Zeus, What a great line. Accurate too. * Commercials. When Jesse finally got enough cash to put out spots, they were brilliant. (He used Wellstone's old ad maker.) Jesse's finest TV ad had "The Bod" in the posture of Rodin's "The Thinker"; the camera traveled around his now-familiar (and apparently naked) bulk while the announcer described the positions of Jesse "The Mind." At the end of the spot, he winked. No candidate ever winks. That was 50,000 votes right there. Compare with: techstocks.com Maybe James reads our little thread <g> Re the second article the voters rejected Humphrey, after all he had reportedly done for Minnesota: Thanks very much Skip for all your good work. Now go join a big law firm and get rich.

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