Coleman's database: lots and lots of Jewish names

by: Joe Bodell
MN Progressive Project

I couldn't resist: I poked into Norm Coleman's supporter database, made publicly available by the Coleman campaign itself and subsequently provided for public consumption by Wikileaks.org.

I'm not going to provide the database, or any links deeper than to Wikileaks' homepage, from which you can confirm what I found on your own. But the disclaimers aside, the headline says it all.

Campaigns are required to track the source of records like these -- since they buy, lease, and otherwise borrow lists from various organizations, it's important (and legally required) to note where you got a given name from. Most campaign databases will include a column called "Source" or something similar to denote this piece of information.

And Coleman's database includes just such a column. One of the codes in that column is "gopjew_091307" -- and there are over 20,000 of them.

(More here.)