Good News for Democrats in Minnesota
The best chance for a Republican to pick up an open Democratic Senate seat in 2006, the one being vacated by Senator Mark Dayton, in Minnesota, has gotten a lot worse this weekend. Patty Wetterling, the nationally-known child safety advocate, has dropped out of the Democratic race for the US Senate, endorsing Amy Klobuchar, who is now only facing nominal opposition for the Democratic Senate nomination by political unknown Ford Bell.
Republicans thought they had a big edge because their candidate, Rep. Mark Kennedy, was unopposed, and the Democrats were likely to have a bruising and expensive primary campaign. Now that that campaign has dissolved, Rep. Mark Kennedy is just a Republican with a lousy environmental record (complete with a broken promise on ANWR just last month) running in a state where people value the environment, against a popular Democrat.
What's more, with Wetterling out of the Senate race, Wetterling may elect to run for Mark Kennedy's old House seat, where she is popular, having lost a relatively close race to Kennedy two years ago. She would not be facing an incumbent now.
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