All week long we've been catching up with the Senate candidates on the campaign trail. Today, we were in Owatonna with Dean Barkley. He told me Jesse Ventura may appear with him this weekend, he hasn't heard if Jesse will be in town yet. In 1998 the final weekend before the election was the magical time for Ventura, but Barkley is not trying to replicate that knowing he can't draw the same crowds. Barkley is just talking to regular folks, he says it isn't about the political celebrities but the person you vote for.
The regular folks we saw seemed pretty fed up with this race. The lawsuits, what's true and what's not; and of course the nasty ads that seemed to hit a new low for our state. Barkley is trying to capitalize on the distaste for the tone of this election saying he's not suing anyone and he "couldn't ask for two better opponents, how much worse can it get?"