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Report: Sen. Klobuchar wins second term

MINNEAPOLIS - Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar defeated Kurt Bills in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, according to The Associated Press. The race was called just minutes after polls closed at 8 p.m.

Klobuchar earns a second term in the U.S. Senate. Polls leading up to the election showed her with a sizeable lead.

Klobuchar's popularity, name recognition and big campaign fund kept big-name Republicans from stepping forward to challenge her.

Bills, a high school economics teacher and first-term state lawmaker, rode support from Ron Paul backers to become his party's nominee. But he had so little money he couldn't mount a major TV presence.

Klobuchar, a former county prosecutor, ran hard anyway. She played up several pieces of legislation she worked on with Republicans as evidence of her bipartisanship.

Bills is a high school economics teacher in Rosemount and a one-term state representative.
 
This is a very painful loss. It's also a cautionary lesson about what happens when the GOP establishment stands down and refuses to support a liberty nominee. Without the party apparatus and insufficient grassroots support, Bills got crushed, I am very sorry to say.
 
Lovecraftian4Paul said:
This is a very painful loss. It's also a cautionary lesson about what happens when the GOP establishment stands down and refuses to support a liberty nominee. Without the party apparatus and insufficient grassroots support, Bills got crushed, I am very sorry to say.
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Challenging an incumbent in a deep Blue state when you yourself are unknown will virtually always be a losing strategy. Bills shot too high. Become a State Senator first or serve more than one term as a State Rep before challenging for a seat this huge with an incumbent as popular and as well funded as Klobuchar. This is not a loss for us in any measurable way. It is also a lesson that when polls a month or so out of an election show our candidate losing by double digits, then it's over.
 
TCE said:
Challenging an incumbent in a deep Blue state when you yourself are unknown will virtually always be a losing strategy. Bills shot too high. Become a State Senator first or serve more than one term as a State Rep before challenging for a seat this huge with an incumbent as popular and as well funded as Klobuchar. This is not a loss for us in any measurable way. It is also a lesson that when polls a month or so out of an election show our candidate losing by double digits, then it's over.
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^^^This.
 
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He just didn't get the funding. Hopefully he will run again next time that he has more name recognition.
 
TCE said:
Challenging an incumbent in a deep Blue state when you yourself are unknown will virtually always be a losing strategy. Bills shot too high. Become a State Senator first or serve more than one term as a State Rep before challenging for a seat this huge with an incumbent as popular and as well funded as Klobuchar. This is not a loss for us in any measurable way. It is also a lesson that when polls a month or so out of an election show our candidate losing by double digits, then it's over.
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Yep, it's hard to beat a popular incumbent.
 
Got his name out.. try again in a couple of years.. laying the foundation.

...If at first you don't secede.. try, try again.
 
Didn't see that one coming /sarcasm.



But seriously, it's ashame because Bills was a good guy. He use his lisits to do better things in the future :-)
 
EBounding said:
Don't feel too bad. The establishment pick for Senate in Michigan lost soundly too.
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I would never vote for Hoekstra - he voted for so many things that are just wrong - but did you know he supports repealing the 17th Amendment? I didn't, until tonight.
 
Maybe Bills wouldn't have won but he could run a much better campaign if he stayed true to the people who helped him get the nomination. There was a reason why he didn't get the grassroots support he needed.
 
Badger Paul said:
Maybe Bills wouldn't have won but he could run a much better campaign if he stayed true to the people who helped him get the nomination. There was a reason why he didn't get the grassroots support he needed.
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You mean endorsing Romney before the Convention was a bad move? It was a catastrophic misstep.
 
TCE said:
You mean endorsing Romney before the Convention was a bad move? It was a catastrophic misstep.
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I didn't agree with it, but the way the party stood down cannot be overstated. Bills had reason to be somewhat afraid and try to reach out to the misguided GOP base. Even when he had strong RP grassroots support and won the party endorsement, they STILL came after him by fielding a guy with slick money and marketing for the August primary. Carlson, his opponent, was given a creepy anti-Paul/anti-Bills ad that probably originated from the Romney campaign or somewhere else.

It was far too well made to have been thrown together on a low budget by some guy who only showed up a couple weeks before the election. I'm sure it was one of the "a-bombs" Wead alluded to when talking about how Romney would retaliate against Paul in the case of a direct attack. It'll be interesting if we ever learn the origin of that ad once the dust has settled. I am very curious and I have my suspicions...
 
His opponent might be in the running for Holder's job:

Obama could turn to one of two former prosecutors now in the Senate, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota or Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. Klobuchar was a popular county attorney; Whitehouse served as attorney general and U.S. attorney in his home state. Justice could also be a landing spot for Sen. Claire McCaskill, a former county prosecutor in Missouri, who just won reelection, or for Janet Napolitano, the current Homeland Security secretary. If Obama wants to look to his home state, he could tap Lisa Madigan, the longtime Illinois attorney general. (Both Klobuchar and Napolitano have also been mentioned as possible Supreme Court nominees.)
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YHGTBFKM. Janet Napolitano for US AG or SCOTUS? God help us.
 
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