NEWS: Coleman and Franken disagree over what campaign should be about
Professor Larry Jacobs comments on the U.S. Senate race between Senator Norm Coleman and Al Franken.
University of Minnesota Political Science Professor Lawrence Jacobs said Franken and Coleman are each hoping they can convince reporters and voters what the campaign should be about.
"This year it's particularly striking because we've got an incumbent who has to be very careful about the kind of issues that Minnesotans, who are up-for-grabs, are thinking about," Jacobs said. "He doesn't want them thinking about how things were six years ago before there was the Iraq war, before we had this downturn in the economy. Likewise, we hear Al Franken raising the kind of questions that he thinks are important and that he wants voters to think about," Jacobs said.
Minnesota Public Radio
April 6, 2008
