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Coleman is a member of four Senate committees including the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. In 2004 he ran for chairman of the [[National Republican Senatorial Committee]] (N.R.S.C.) but was defeated by [[North Carolina]] Senator [[Elizabeth Dole]] by one vote. Senator Coleman calls himself pro-life but has voted in support of embryonic stem cell research. He opposes [[gay]] marriages and civil unions. Coleman opposed President [[George W. Bush]]'s troop increase in [[Iraq]] in January of 2007.

Coleman is a member of four Senate committees including the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. In 2004 he ran for chairman of the [[National Republican Senatorial Committee]] (N.R.S.C.) but was defeated by [[North Carolina]] Senator [[Elizabeth Dole]] by one vote. Senator Coleman calls himself pro-life but has voted in support of embryonic stem cell research. He opposes [[gay]] marriages and civil unions. Coleman opposed President [[George W. Bush]]'s troop increase in [[Iraq]] in January of 2007.

==2008 Senate reelection==  

== 2008 Senate re-election results ==  

Senator Coleman is running for reelection in 2008. His opponent is the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor party nominee, former [[Air America Radio]] talk show host [[Al Franken]], a [[liberal]] who is notorious for his inappropriate writings and bursts of anger. Former U.S. Senator [[Dean Barkley]] of the Independence Party is also in the race. Conventional wisdom holds that the race has a chance of becoming competitive. However, a July MPR/Mason-Dixon poll shows that Coleman is ahead of (Minneapolis attorney Mike) Ciresi 52%-29% (who lost the primary to Al Franken), and ahead of Franken 54%-32%.

Senator Coleman is ran for reelection in 2008. His opponents were former U.S. Senator [[Dean Barkley]] of the [[Independance Party]], and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party candidate [[Al Fraken]].

 

Senater Norm Coleman won the election by 215 votes.  Dean Barkley garnered 437,404 votes, while Senator Coleman garnered 1,211,590 votes, and Al Franken garnered, 1,211,375 votes.<ref>[http://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/20081104/ElecRslts.asp?M=S&R=all&P=A&Races='' Minnesota Secretary of State statewide election results]</ref> 

 

Minnesota state law requires an automatic recount if the the margin of victory is less than 0.5%.<ref>Duchscher, Kevin Mike Kaszuba and Mark Brunswick (November 18, 2008) [http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/34607244.html Canvassing Board to meet at 1 p.m. to review results] StarTribune</ref>

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