I am sorry to have to step on Dave’s excellent post below, but this is truly earth-shattering news. I never thought I would live to see the day that the ‘Hammer & Sickle” endorsed the Republican candidate in a U.S. Senate Race.
That even the Star Tribune cannot bring themselves to endorse Al Franken says all that needs to be said regarding the fitness of Al Franken to serve in the Unites States Senate.
Minnesota Democrats Exposed has the story.
October 25th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Good news. This year is gonna be terrible. I wasn’t even able to bring myself to vote for Colorado’s clown of a candidate for Senate. What conservative isn’t glad that McCain saved the Senate minority 3 years ago?
October 25th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Let’s hope it influences some votes out your way. Holding that seat is not only critical to preventing a 60 seat Dem majority but, Franken is disgusting.
October 25th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Everything I am hearing here on the ground in MN indicates that Coleman is toast.
October 25th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I think they blanking on the thank all the Blankley support will drop on election day and head back to Coleman, just like Vetura support was suppose to in 98
October 25th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
The Minnesota economy is hurting and Coleman has the tricky task of navigating Pawlenty, McCain and Bush.
October 25th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
For Minnesota to elect Franken would be tantamount to a confession of mental incapacity beyond the norms of insanity. If this were to happen, it would be a sign of Biblical proportions that the Apocalypse is near.
October 25th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Congrats, hopefully it works. However, in ’06 I thought the Washington Post endorsing Bob Ehrlich for re-election as MD’s governor was a similarly earth shattering event, however, you can’t underestimate the anger of voters in the face of logic.
October 25th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
The picture in the Senate is bleak. Dems are poised to win in VA, CO, NM, NH, MN, OR, AK, and NC. In each of those races, the Dem is either well ahead or the race involves a GOP incumbent polling well below 50 percent (undecideds almost always break against the incumbent in these sorts of races). That would give the Dems 57 seats plus Sanders and Lieberman for a total of 59 Democratic votes.
If Dems want to get to 60, they’ll have to pick off one of the remaining vulnerable GOP seats in the south: GA, MS, or KY. They’ll have to win two if they don’t want to negotiate with Lieberman.
October 27th, 2008 at 8:23 am
your gonna loose, lol, you asses have circled the religous wagons around each other and 4got about the rest of the GOP party, & now there looking at palin, and all her small town racist freaks, like were not some red neck, uneducated, bible lovin, evan freaks! lol This will last 4 a while, because without your new base, the party will stay fractured!