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Norm Coleman

| @jpodhoretz 11.05.2008 - 8:12 AM

The Republican senator from Minnesota has, according to the Associated Press, survived by the skin of his teeth and has defeated Al Franken. Coleman is one of the most interesting political figures in America. A Brooklyn-born Jew, he moved to St. Paul and became its Democratic reformist mayor, then decided his reformist ideas made him more of a new-breed Republican and switched parties. He’s the only man in the Senate with a New York accent, and he’s from the Land of 10,000 Lakes. (I like to think of him as the spiritual trade for my mother, who was born in St. Paul and moved to New York and lost her Minnesota accent.)

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