While Minnesota election officials are still deciding the fate of Sen. Norm Coleman (R), there are reports out this morning that he may have other things to worry about.

Politicians like to kiss babies, shake hands, and horn in on your breakfast at local diners. These days, though, candidates are spending a majority of their time locked up in a room with a telephone and a spreadsheet asking for money.

Your letters to the editor continue to be published in newspapers across the country, today I saw two more excellent submissions: one courtesty of Mark Hruby in Minnesota's St. Cloud Times, and one by Richard Rawlings in Washington state's The Olympian (fourth down).

A Minnesota university student, Joe Mullenbach, a member of Democracy Matters, has written in the Minnesota Daily on the importance of Clean Money reform.