| We are not doing well in Minnesota this afternoon. After hearing of the
death of Sen. Paul Wellstone -- one of the few lights of political honesty we
will ever see in this country -- I got in my car and drove over to the
Wellstone campaign headquarters in the Midway business district area of
Saint Paul.
I could not get near the place. The crush of media and police units was too
great. There was nowhere to park. People milled around the entrance of the
headquarters. The doors were locked ... people kept trying the doors, to no
avail. Folks from businesses across the street milled around on the
sidewalks, there. Everyone was in shock. Everyone was stunned.
As I pulled past the building, I saw a sight that nearly stopped me cold. A
lone staff person, standing next to The Green Bus, Paul and Sheila's
well-known campaign icon. He was leaning in the railing, his head bowed in
grief.
That sight broke my heart.
We don't know what will happen, now, here in this state. We don't know what
will happen in the US Senate race, now, either.
All I know, right now, is that none of us are doing well.
And that we have all lost today.
Lost big. | 
