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Norm Coleman: I Won't Run For Senate Against Klobuchar In 2012 (VIDEO)

Eric Kleefeld | February 1, 2011, 1:34PM

Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), American Action CEO

Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), who very narrowly lost the hotly-disputed 2008 Minnesota Senate race, has announced that he will not challenge the state's other senator, Democrat Amy Klobuchar, in 2012.

"I'm not going to run against Amy Klobuchar," said on ABC's Top Line Web show. "I've said in other forums that I haven't ruled out public service -- my heart's in public service. At some point, but not in 2012. I love what I do now, and that is developing center-right policy."

Coleman currently heads up his own conservative group, the American Action Network, which according its website "is a 501(c)(4) 'action tank' that will create, encourage and promote center-right policies based on the principles of freedom, limited government, American exceptionalism, and strong national security."

A survey in December by Public Policy Polling (D) gave Klobuchar an approval rating of 59%, with disapproval at only 29%. The same poll also showed her leading all hypothetical Republican opponents, including a 54%-40% advantage over Coleman.

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