Walter Mondale

It would seem out of character at this point for Norm Coleman to concede the race for the Senate seat he occupied until Saturday, even after this morning’s negative ruling from the Minnesota Supreme Court and the certification of the vote in favor of rival Al Franken by the State Canvassing Board this afternoon. But it could happen — just read between the lines of his recount lawyer’s remarks yesterday, or listen to former senator and Vice President Walter Mondale today.

In an interview with the Scandinavian-American cultural magazine Nordic Reach, former Vice President and U.S. Sen. Walter Mondale sounds fed up with social media and crowdsourcing. He was unaware he has a MySpace page until the interviewer tells him about it:
“I won’t take responsibility … Somebody told me about Wikipedia, where people can put in [...]

The Humphrey Institute put together a rather remarkable panel on Wednesday morning to discuss the ongoing U.S. Senate recount. Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, Ramsey County elections manager Joe Mansky, and former Vice President Walter Mondale were among the speakers. You can listen to the entire discussion here and here. Or watch a clip featuring [...]

Newspaper election endorsements are out — some packing a wallop as bracing as a stiff winter wind in October, others playing it as safe as pre-Halloween trick-or-treating at a local strip mall. Here’s a roundup of candidate preferences for the U.S. Senate and House that Minnesota papers have so far put in print. The recession sees the major dailies’ editorialists cutting back on costly opinions — either picking favorites without naming the issues they like them for, as both the PiPress and Star Tribune have done in the U.S. Senate race, or beating a wholesale retreat from making a pick at all, as the St. Paul Pioneer Press has done in the presidential contest.

Last night Hillary Clinton forcefully endorsed Barack Obama for president and implored her backers to follow suit. This morning the Minnesota delegation’s Clinton supporters declared that they are united in heeding her advice.
“We’ve all spent a lot of time and enthusiasm seeking her nomination to be President of the United States,” said former vice [...]

And he loves America. And so does Michelle Obama. That seemed to be the theme of the night. In an often stirring speech Michelle paid loving tribute to her parents and credited the civil rights and feminist movements for guiding her own success. “That is why I love this country,” she told the crowd. “And in my [...]

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and a host of other Democrats addressed the party’s delegation this morning at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel. The brief speeches were mostly rah-rah calls for unity and passion heading into the stretch run of the campaign. ”Are you fired up and ready to go?” Klobuchar asked, before trying out a line [...]

The Norwegian consulate in Minneapolis and the Sons of Norway, the Minneapolis-based international fraternal organization, say they aren’t aware of any interaction over the weekend between two prominent Norwegian-Americans: Walter Mondale and Karl Rove.

Rove, architect of what former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan calls the administration’s “permanent campaign,” was in Rochester, Minn., to speak at [...]