...raised more than $600,000 in the first six months of this year, his campaign announced Wednesday. Campaign manager Ben Whitney said Coleman, a Republican, ended the Jan. 1-June 30 reporting period with $500,000 in the bank. More than...

...monopolize the airwaves. "You want to define yourself before someone else does it for you," Coleman campaign manager Ben Whitney said. Wellstone's ads say he stands up for the little guy. One ad promotes his education record and was built around...

...last two (1990 and 1996) were also close, polls showed it neck-and-neck at the end, and we won both of them." Ben Whitney, for Coleman, said the poll "shows what has been true for the last six or seven months, that (Wellstone) is very...

...it wasn't very well-executed, and so if we made a mistake, we made a mistake," Coleman's campaign manager Ben Whitney said. "We're running against a two-term incumbent who has a lot more money than we do and a lot bigger platform...

...former mayor of St. Paul and President Bush's choice to challenge the two-term incumbent. A Coleman spokesman, Ben Whitney, said Friday: "Our prayers are with the Wellstone family. That's all I'm going to say." Wellstone was flying...

...fund-raising plays right into Senator Wellstone's populist, anti-corporate message." Coleman campaign manager Ben Whitney calls the Wellstone campaign's assertion that the former mayor will be beholden to corporate interests a "phony charge...

...have a base of information and have formed perceptions about the candidates." Or, as Coleman's campaign manager, Ben Whitney put it: "Surely the temperature is getting higher, but the election is getting closer." Independence Party Senate...