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Well-spoken Madia worked his brains out for DFL nod
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Apr 14, 2008 10:11pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 04:10:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | To the politically attuned members of the Minnesota electorate, this story crept up slowly and steadily so that by Sunday, the final outcome was expected and therefore not enough people are noting how impressive, bordering on amazing, it was. But let us pause now to note exactly that.
Ashwin Madia, a very young, dark-skinned, bachelor lawyer with a foreign-sounding name, who had not run for anything since college, who started with name recognition in the zero range, beat state Sen. Terri Bonoff, a bright, attractive, well-regarded, well-financed woman for the DFL endorsement and is now the all-but-certain DFL nominee in what is expected to be one of the hot congressional races in the country.
Madia seems to have done this mostly on the strength of his skills as a communicator — one-on-one and in small rooms, there have been no TV ads — by working his brains out and inspiring a small cadre of political newcomers and amateurs to do likewise, and perhaps by choosing the right strategy for the particular contest.
This is an impressive accomplishment, bordering on amazing. |
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