November 9, 2000 - D-F-L Senate-elect Mark Dayton says he's thrilled to have won the seat he first sought 18 years ago. Dayton defeated Republican incumbent Rod Grams 49-to-43-percent in yesterday's election. The former state Auditor and department store heir spent more than 11-million dollars of his own money in a bitterly-contested race that Grams didn't officially concede until late Wednesday afternoon. Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports...
November 8, 2000 - D-F-L Senate-elect Mark Dayton says he's thrilled to have won the seat he first sought 18 years ago. Dayton defeated Republican incumbent Rod Grams 49-to-43-percent in yesterday's election. The former state Auditor and department store heir spent more than 11-million dollars of his own money in a bitterly-contested race that Grams didn't officially concede until late this afternoon. Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports...
November 6, 2000 - Minnesota's U.S. Senate candidates spent the final day before the election trying to get last-minute votes. Republican Senator Rod Grams campaigned in the Twin Cities, DFL'er Mark Dayton hit central Minnesota and Independence Party candidate James Gibson traveled to southeastern Minnesota. Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum has a report on Grams.
November 3, 2000 - The "Citizens' Ad Police" were on patrol again this week, critiquing some of the campaign ads blanketing the airwaves. M-P-R ad analyst Dean Alger gathered a group of six Twin Cities residents to watch the latest ads in hotly-contested Congressional races, and a few commercials for Independence Party candidates. In the last of our series of Ad Watches for campaign 2000, Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports...
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November 1, 2000 - in Minneapolis. Bush stressed tax cuts, and attacked Democratic opponent Al Gore as a big spender who's achieved little as vice president. Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports...
October 25, 2000 - Minnesota's US Senate race is the most expensive in the state's history - and much of the nearly ten-million dollars spent by the three major candidates so far has been used on television ads. Since ads have dominated the campaign, we decided to ask some citizens what they think of the latest commercials in the Senate race. Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports...
October 23, 2000 - Republican Senator Rod Grams appears to be facing the toughest fight of his relatively short political career this year. DFLer Mark Dayton, who has outspent Grams four to one since the primary, has opened a wide lead in the polls. But Grams, a former television anchorman, has proven the pundits wrong before, when he won a Congressional seat on his first political attempt, and won election to the Senate after just one term in Congress. Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum looks at the career and campaign of Rod Grams.
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