. - 312 votes separating you and the incumbent norm coleman, who was the republican out of 2.5, six-- - nine million, 2.9 million. - nine million cast. - we're very, very close, and so basically, coleman didn't have much accomplishments to run on so it all a-- - right. - it was an incredibly negative campaign. i had to prove the people that i was taking this seriously 'cause so much of this had been about he's gonna disgrace minnesota and embarrass us and so i, my chief of staff, drew littman, had me meet with tamera luzzatto, who had been hillary's chief of staff and we, basically, i said hillary came here with some challenges. she was very well known-- - she was a celebrity not-- - a celebrity. - not exactly the same. - a different celebrity than me, bigger celebrity, and also had been the first lady in a previous and because of that, probably republicans were gonna look at her a little, you know, askance. - right. - and democrats would worry about her taking their camera time, so basically, the hillary model was don't do national tv. - yep. - and work very hard, show up for your he