MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 12 -- The crowd at First Avenue in downtown Minneapolis was still swelling past midnight when Peggy Flanagan stepped onto the same stage where Bob Dylan played his first concert and said the thing they had come to hear. "For months now, I have been telling you that this campaign was about the many versus the money," she told them. "Well guess what? The many just won."

With 58.8 percent of the vote, the 46-year-old lieutenant governor defeated centrist Representative Angie Craig in Minnesota's Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday, NPR reported, ending the most expensive primary in state history. If she wins the Senate seat in November, Flanagan will become the first Native American woman elected to the United States Sena...