Minnesota blogger Jeff Rosenberg has been pulling together some facts on Norm Coleman’s out-of-touch record.  Every week, Rosenberg provides Minnesotans with information on Coleman’s positions and record on issues ranging from the employment to nuclear weapons.  It’s a great resource for anyone who wants to cut through Coleman’s campaign spin.

Coleman’s out-of-touch record

• Employment
• Education
• Environment
• Transportation
• Transportation Security
• Veterans
• Bankruptcy
• New Nuclear Weapons

On issue after issue, Norm Coleman has proven himself to be out of the mainstream, siding with George Bush instead of with the people of Minnesota.  No wonder he’s working so hard to distance himself from the Bush-Coleman legacy of the last seven years.

It’s an ongoing series, so be sure to keep checking in with Minnesota Campaign Report. 

For more on the Minnesota Senate race, see our race profile page, or visit Al Franken’s website.

A new poll taken by InsiderAdvantage for the Southern Political report shows the North Carolina Senate race tied, with both Democrat Kay Hagan and incumbent Republican Elizabeth Dole receiving 40 percent of the vote. The poll comes on the heels of one from Survey USA last week that showed Dole’s lead had shrunk to 5 points. Dole spent more than $1 million in television ads over the summer to build a lead that now seems to have largely dissipated.

You can view the full results of the poll here. (PDF link.)

Check out the latest ad in the Colorado Senate race, taking far-right Republican Bob Schaffer to task for failing to stand up for veterans when he was in Congress, and for focusing on Iraqi oil deals instead of the needs of veterans.

The ad was produced by VoteVets, and will be hitting the Colorado airwaves soon.

Georgia Democrat Jim Martin grew up in a family of six boys. Their mother taught her six sons that we define ourselves by our deeds, not by our words - by living the values that come from our faith. Interrupted only by two years of service in the U.S. Army, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Martin has spent his entire life in Georgia. He served for 18 years in the state legislature, and Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Human Resources under two governors.

In early August, Jim Martin received Georgia Democrats’ nomination for the U.S. Senate, and he has already built up a strong campaign that’s taken the political world by surprise. While many political observers felt that Republican Saxby Chambliss was essentially untouchable, Martin quickly proved them wrong by setting a brisk fundraising pace and coming within six points in a recent poll. Such a strong showing so soon after beginning his general election campaign is a testament to how hard Jim Martin is working to bring real change to the people of Georgia.

For more on the Georgia Senate race, see our race profile page, or visit Jim Martin’s website.

The Washington Post’s Chris Cilizza looked at the Oklahoma Senate race today, and came away impressed with Democrat Andrew Rice’s recent rise in the polls. Campaigning against a very well-known incumbent, Rice had initially started the race trailing by 20 points. Now as he’s travelling the state and introducing himself to voters, Rice is steadily rising. A just-released poll shows that Rice has slashed Inhofe’s early polling advantage in half.

With Senate Democrats growing more bullish about their chances of holding 60 seats following the November election, new polling out of Oklahoma suggests that Sen. Jim Inhofe(R) may be in for a serious challenge in the fall.

The survey, which was conducted by Pete Brodnitz for state Sen. Andrew Rice (D-Okla.) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, showed Inhofe at 50 percent and Rice at 41 percent -- a significant increase from a similar poll in June that had the Republican incumbent at 53 percent to 33 percent for the challenger.

Read the whole column here. Political observers like Cilizza are talking more and more about Rice’s strong campaign, and that’s bad news for Inhofe; the more Oklahomans hear about Andrew Rice, the more they like what he stands for.

For more on the Oklahoma Senate race, see our race profile page, or visit Andrew Rice’s website.