I think Senator Amy Klobuchar

[ruggerson]

has a very bright future ahead of her.

That is all. ;)

[jannyk]

1. I think you may be correct. n/t

[dflprincess]

2. You may be right

Amy is very adept at avoiding taking a position on any issue that has the hint of controversy to it and her staff writes the best non-response response emails I've ever read. Though, to her credit, she did take a strong and courageous stand against texting while driving. I gave serious thought to submitting her name for a "Profiles in Courage" award after that.

As a result she has fairly high approval ratings among Minnesotans who don't pay much attention. Among those who are paying attenion, not so much.

Besides avoiding issues (she never would give an answer on what she thought of a public option) Amy's biggest problem is her own and her staff's arrogance. Try calling her office sometime to let them know you disagree with her - it will be made very clear to you that your opinion is of no importance to them and they have better things to do than listen to you. As much as I hated Normie Coleman, he had very personable people working for him that were quite pleasent to speak to - even when you telling their boss was an idiot. Prior to being elected to the Senate she was Hennepin County Attorney. There were county AFSCME members who pleaded with the union not to endorse her because of the way employees were treated in her office (BTW the members I heard this from are quite active in the DFL).

Klobuchar was shoved down our throats by the DSCC and the DNC (with help from the state party, in violation of its own rules) and there are many of us who would love to see her challenged for endorsement next year.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I Guess Small Bore Efforts Are Better Than None At All.

"Amy is very adept at avoiding taking a position on any issue that has the hint of controversy to it and her staff writes the best non-response response emails I've ever read. Though, to her credit, she did take a strong and courageous stand against texting while driving. I gave serious thought to submitting her name for a "Profiles in Courage" award after that."

[elleng]

3. Yes, looking for her to be POTUS/VPOTUS, really.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. She is one of my senators, and I find her deeply underwhelming.

Her most impressive talent -- perhaps her only talent -- is her ability to avoid taking a stand on anything. She is a human windsock. Although she gives good interview, I suspect there's no "there" there. If you don't actually pay close attention to what she says, she seems to be saying something, but when you analyze what she really said, you discover that she didn't say anything at all. And her staff people are rude, which doesn't impress me either.

[DrToast]

5. I didn't catch the whole interview. Did Rachel ask her if she supports filibuster reform?

[Odin2005]

6. This minnesotan finds her disappointing.

Too in cahoots with the pro-corporate Establishment.

[jwirr]

7. Another MN resident who wishes she would get a backbone and

at least speak out once in a while. I guess though that I kind of understand her. She needs to get elected and she is caught squarely between the liberals in the north and the conservadems in the south. She is trying to please them all. The problem is that compared to Al Franken she looks weak.

[annm4peace]

8. Many Democrats in MN find her a disappointment

she'll make us safe from pool drains and that is about it

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Don't forget that Chinese honey.

She has also made Minnesota safe from cheap honey imported from China. The beekeepers of Minnesota are very pleased with this.

[ruggerson]

10. She has a 59% approval rating

And is the single most popular senator in all those polled in this PPP survey from last week.

So, it sounds like there are a lot of Minnesotans who disagree with some of the posters here.

MINNESOTANS LIKE SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR[br />

It's been more than a month since we last had an election. It must be time to start talking about the next one. Public Policy Polling asked Minnesotans their preference between Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar and a number of Republican opponents. Klobuchar led all of them by 10 to 18 percentage points. Here are the results:

Klobuchar: 56%

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann: 39%

Klobuchar: 54%

Former Sen. Norm Coleman: 40%

Klobuchar: 56%

State Rep. Tom Emmer: 38%

Klobuchar: 53%

Gov. Tim Pawlenty: 43%

Klobuchar: 52%

U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen: 34%

Klobuchar also has a 59 percent approval rating, and PPP says she is the most popular of 66 U.S. senators it has measured in 2010. Even in a much more negative climate for a Democrat, Klobuchar has to feel good about her chances for re-election.

[dflprincess]

11. As I said, among Minnesotans

and especially DFL activists, who are paying attenion she is not well liked.

How she might do against that list in your post is really not a good measure of how thinking people view her. Emmer came close enough to being elected governor that many people would be scared enough to show up and cast a vote for Amykins out of fear of her opponent. Even a faux DFLer, somewhere to the right of Eisenhower is preferable to crackpots like Bachmann, Emmer, Pawlenty, Paulsen or Coleman.

[geardaddy]

14. Al Franken is a much better senator and he's been in the Senate

for a shorter time than Amy. He's done more to earn his keep there than Amy.

-Another MN disappointed with Amy

[glinda]

13. Amy supports the Republican/Tea-Party Wolf de-lisitng. NO consulting with the public.

I just wrote an huge email to our lovely Senator connected to an alert that just reached my inbox. I am hugely disappointed in Klobachar and this takes the cake. She is ill experienced in affairs of the Environment and has made a harmful and ignorant move regarding our wolf population.
Having spent over 25 years in environmental areas of this State and understanding and hearing from farmers, people, Left and Right wing of the State as well as having lived on land that a wolf pack traveled upon, I began to realize there there have not been any public mass calls to hunt wolves. Rarely a complaint. Only from Right Wing hunters and only recently. Only since Palin.
The (Corporate) farmers do not buy fencing. (cheap) They do not get guard dogs.(lazy) And actually I have not heard any of them complain on any significant level. And actually never heard one single complaint in 25 years. But I have seen poaching. I have seen them hit by cars. I have been aware of diseases that they battle with mange and other things. I am aware of how they serve to rid the deer population of sick, old and excess deer.

This is an area extremely personal to me. She is more than just a failure in this action(s). If you wish to express your concern about this please email her even though all you will get is a computer generated auto response.

I am so angry I could blow a gasket right now. I want her out of office.

She did nothing to consult on this with the MN. population in regards to her vile drive to take them off the Endangered list. She is a phony.I met her years and years ago at some DFL events out in the far reaches of the sTate. At that time, I was asking myself "What is a Republican doing here"? Seriously. She loacked lack of empathy, short on facts, unaware of issues overall and an opportunist.

I see again Rachel Maddow has also shown that she doesn't have a total clue on this woman. She did that with Pawlenty also having him on over and over again. Sure, Amy looks like a rational human but her push to de-list the wolf is total tragedy catering to the rich small group of Right Wing sport hunters.

[Minnesota Raindog]

15. Lamy falsely claims wolves are hurting hunting in Minnesota

As a deer hunter in Minnesota for 35 years, I can tell you wolves only improve the deer herd--and right now the deer population here is pretty high.

We don't call her "Lamy" for nothing. She may be popular with a lot of Minnesotans, but so is white bread.

[totodeinhere]

17. I doubt if you can find any politician that you can agree with on every issue.

Amy is great on most issues. I think it's a bit much to throw her under the bus over just this one issue. And if you do get her out of office, how do you know that her replacement will be any better, if not worse?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. It's not a matter of "throwing her under the bus" on a single issue --

it's that she just doesn't have the courage to take a stand on controversial issues. Any question submitted to her regarding anything that's at all controversial or contentious will receive a non-answer answer. I don't know whether it's ideological or if she's just trying to please everybody (which ultimately pleases nobody), but you can't get her to stick her neck out on much of anything. She's wishy-washy and gutless. She gives good interview but that's about it. There are good people here who could give her a serious run for her money in a primary, and I hope somebody does.

[AndrewP]

18. +1

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. I attended a health care forum called by my state representative and state senator

and Amy and Al both had representatives there. After the panel discussion was over, I wanted to do a little lobbying for the public option, only to find that Amy's representatives were nowhere to be seen. Someone told me they had left before the panel discussion was over. Everyone else stayed to talk to the audience.

[dflprincess]

20. Both Amy and her staff give the impression that they feel speaking to voters one on one is beneath

them.

Espscially if you're trying to express an opinion Amykins might not like.