Comments on: I personally put Al Franken in the Senate

By: okey

okey — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:59:53 +0000

thanks

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:02:47 +0000

Weren’t all of us jerks in grade school? For those of you who say no, maybe we should ask your classmates, lol.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:59:05 +0000

Today is Talk Like Shakespeare Day in Chicago.

By: becca

becca — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:22:10 +0000

“Al won the election by just a few hundred votes, and three of those votes are mine”
Wait… Minnesota is Chicago now?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:04:44 +0000

1) No, no new news on Coleman giving it up. I’m just assuming it will all end eventually.

2) I don’t think Franken is a jerk. That guy did, and he may well have been in grade school. Who knows? But now he’s friendly, thoughtful, smart, funny, and that’s OK.

By: John Swindle

John Swindle — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:55:44 +0000

This is something I seldom have thought about… that a candidate I support and admire could be a jerk. Of course, it’s possible, but I’ve never been close enough to any candidate to know such a thing. I think I’d be rendered speechless if I learned something like that about Obama. I guess it’s only a little different than learning a bit too much about entertainers’ private lives… except that Jim Carrey and Tom Cruise don’t determine the country’s destiny. Still, since I didn’t have to go to school with Al Franken, I don’t care much that he might’ve been an unpleasant person. Considering the alternative (Coleman), Franken would have to be a lot worse than a jerk to lose my support.

I am not a Minnesota resident, but that senate seat is important to all of us. So thanks for your efforts.

By: Minnesota Central

Minnesota Central — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:31:11 +0000

THANKS !
Actually, thanks to you and all the other volunteers that take the message via a one-on-one voter-to-voter approach. If you wonder why Congresswoman Bachmann gets re-elected, you now know the importance of committed volunteers â?¦ way to take a page out of the Theo-Con playbook !

The question is did that leaf raker have a Coleman supporter stop by ? Or think if a Barkley supporter paid a visit â?¦ to convert someone from anti-Franken to supportive of Franken means you beat two candidates â?? Coleman and anybody-but-Coleman/Franken.

Thatâ??s the question that Coleman has never answered â?¦. Why did 58% of the people decide that someone else would be better than an incumbent Senator who served them for the past six years. No doubt a big part of Barkleyâ??s 437,505 votes was from disappointed and previously MN-GOP supporters.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:26:45 +0000

I would like to think I played a small (very small) part in Franken’s victory, despite the fact that I live a long, long way away. I knew I could never get a decent senator elected where I live (Georgia), so I thought maybe I could help out in a state where there was at least a chance. So I sent money. And I did that even though I know if I ever sent a letter to him, it would be tossed because I’m not a resident. I don’t care.

By: David Lee

David Lee — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:04:56 +0000

Good work. And your description was like some out of Prairie Home Companion. Let’s hope Franken gets seated soon and starts pushing the important issues.

By: Matt Springer

Matt Springer — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:48:07 +0000

It doesn’t really matter of Coleman throws in the towel or not. Franken has more votes, and the lead is certainly large enough to resist random perturbations by any conceivable recount method. Coleman’s been wasting everyone’s time for a while now, and his legal recourse is essentially exhausted.