Former U.S. Senator and St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman is playing a major role in the republican campaign strategy. Coleman is leading efforts to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money as chairman of the American Action Network and its super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund. He also is a key foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney.

Coleman will serve as special adviser, focused on policy. Romney says the former senator’s advice will be important as he lays out his economic plan.

Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, recently a top advocate for Mitt Romney on the campaign trail, told a group in Ohio that Roe v. Wade would not be reversed during a Romney presidency. But that contracts Romney's own stance.

Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman says the kind of rhetoric employed by the chairman of California's Democratic Party brings American politics down to the gutter. The official had likened inaccuracies in Paul Ryan's speech at the Republican National Convention to lies told by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

If the new federal law is struck down by the Supreme Court or repealed by Republicans, Minnesota could lose about $2 billion in federal money. MPR reports House Majority Leader Matt Dean has authored a bill calling for the Minnesota human services commissioner to submit a backup plan to the legislature by December 15.

If Mitt Romney is looking for a vice-presidential nominee that might also bring along votes from their home state, Tim Pawlenty might be a poor choice. So says the New York Times, which does a deep analysis on what it would actually take for Minnesota to go red in a presidential election for the first time since 1972. The key -- according to Times writer Michah Cohen -- is Blue Earth County.