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| Last Edited | None Entered Jan 30, 2005 10:37am |
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| Media | Magazine - US News and World Report |
| News Date | Monday, January 31, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A transplanted New Yorker who improbably served two terms as mayor of St. Paul, Minn., Coleman always seems to be in the middle of the action. He won one of the nastiest races of the 2002 campaign with 50 percent of the vote, defeating former Vice President Walter Mondale, who had stepped in as a Democratic standard-bearer after the incumbent senator, Paul Wellstone, was killed in a plane crash 11 days before the election.
From the very beginning, Coleman won admiration not just for his political skills and tenacity but for his resilience in the face of public setbacks and family tragedy. "He's a very talented politician," says Ron Ebensteiner, chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party. "What he was particularly good at was working across party lines, getting people of all parties, races, ethnicities going in the same direction." |
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