Why do Minnesotans search most in March and April, rather than in the warmer summer?
When Minnesotans woke up last Wednesday, Republican Senator Norm Coleman led Mr. Franken by 725 votes.
Once the campaign proper begins, after the conventions, Minnesotans may start inspecting the two candidates' specific proposals.
And conservative Minnesotans have tended to look askance at Hmong traditions such as polygamy and animal sacrifice.
Minnesotans are on edge because of how the injuries happened illegal hits.
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Then, in the privacy of the polling booth, Minnesotans may decide to vote as they have nearly always done.
But Minnesotans, who put Mr Ventura into the governorship because they were fed up with politics-as-usual, dislike personal needling.
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Many Minnesotans are concerned about the government spending money in hard times, but fans are eager for a new stadium.
Mr Moe says that, under a unicameral system, Minnesotans would have only one representative in their district to call for help.
Former Governor JESSE VENTURA (Independent, Minnesota): Minnesotans, this is Governor Jesse Ventura.
But Minnesotans only have so much to worry about on that front.
Almost three decades later, he is chairman of Minnesotans for a Single Chamber and has gathered an impressive network of grass-roots supporters.
Maybe fewer Minnesotans liked a left-wing candidate who ran a nasty campaign.
Moore has successfully integrated comedy with topical issues as her four middle-class Minnesotans grapple with their various personal problems and with one another.
For generations, Minnesotans lived out the progressive argument that high taxes and high services were what gave the state its fabled quality of life.
The logic behind Democrats' strategy is that Minnesotans don't care so much what their pols stand for, just that they stand for something and stick with it.
And those Minnesotans who say that Social Security is the most important issue (the old, who vote) favour Mr Gore over Mr Bush by 49% to 31%.
Minnesotans seem mildly exasperated by the situation rather than enraged.
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Ever-increasing numbers of Minnesotans will find themselves denied routine services.
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It wasn't reported until later, for example, that Ventura is his stage name, that his legal name is James Janos--a small detail, but Minnesotans had never elected a pseudonym before.
It has been signed not just by a roster of medical luminaries from around the world, but also by outraged Minnesotans and university alumni who are ashamed of their university.
Whenever I ask for a show of hands on how the locals feel about the economy--local and national--Texans, Minnesotans and New Mexicans invariably are bullish, while New Yorkers and Californians are bearish.
Governor named Jesse ("The Body") Ventura, and all week Minnesotans were feeling sort of giddy about it, like Lutherans who've drunk a little more than we meant to and now here we are singing Alley Oop and dancing on the sofa.
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If Mr Gore presses that issue, and finds others that appeal, he may persuade Minnesotans to remember their native liberals: Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale and Eugene McCarthy, who helped to foster among many Minnesotans their once-deep belief that government was more benevolent than meddlesome.
In state after state, polls make clear that the American public understands the Kelo ruling is a disaster: 82 percent of Ohioans oppose using eminent domain to take property for economic development, 91 percent of Minnesotans, 92 percent of Kansans, 95 percent of Coloradans, and 86 percent of Missourians.
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