that should be 31% for Franken w/ Ventura

I told them again and again at MyDD and Kos but the idiots refused to listen. Franken has had next to nothing to do with the state for years, he has a very nasal voice, and he's not particularly funny (at least not from anything of his on SNL I've seen). It is far too easy to portray him as a carpet-bagging outsider opportunist.

My politically disinterested Republican mother is planning on voting for Obama but is dead set against Franken.

As much as Webb, Kaine, Warner might help Obama in VA, Franken is going to need some serious traditional top-down coattail help.

Oh, I almost forgot, when Obama helps him campaign, those numbers will improve greatly.

I don't get it, Minnesota is the BLUEST state, the only state (with DC) that voted against Reagan his second time around. That seat used to be held by a real progressive, how can these idiots have a Republican in there? I don't give a shit about dirty jokes or a tax mistake, doesn't these people care at ALL about policy?? How can they be fine with a progressive and fine with a Republican?? It is weird as hell, it doesn't make sense. The piece of shit Republican is only there because the progressive died...it is time to take this back.

I'm not worried, Franken will pull this out, and the Obama boost will help him. The Dems just need to invest in this race, and start tearing Coleman down.

I moved to Minnesota 26 years ago and have found the Minnesota character to be endlessly fascinating in a clinical way.

There is an expression we use/cringe at here: "Minnesota Nice", every bit as smug as it sounds, yet accurate. Your true Minnesotan hates confrontation and expressing an opinion of any sort. We're the home of passive/aggressive. Al Franken is entirely too abrasive and snotty to go over here - we much prefer slick and vapid, like Norm Coleman.

Truth be told, Al Franken is too much the New York Jew for Minnestoan sensibilities, which is ironic because he was born and raised here, whereas Norm Coleman really IS a New York Jew. But as the consummate opportunist he is, he's assimilated the Minnesota bland camoflage and it's served him well.

And I am pretty sure that his dad wasn't getting a bj in the bar parking lot.

I really don't get how Minnesota voters prefer Norm Coleman over Al Franken. Obviously they never listened to his radio show or read his books or they would understand serious he is about the things that matter to us as a country. He understands Social Security and during the time that Bush administration was trying to dismantle it he spoke eloquently about why it is important for our citizens. He also had many discussions about how to address the projected shortages. (For those that listened, it was the donut hole idea.) He has also been to Iraq repeatedly to entertain our troops, starting long before he considered running for office. He also didn't exploit those trips for publicity. I don't care how you describe "Minnesotans" or what they "prefer"---if that state reelects the snake oil salesman Norm Coleman instead of Al Franken who would follow in Paul Wellstone's tradition then they deserve the lemon they have bought. I don't understand how people can look at the smears the right/the corporate media is throwing at Franken and think that THOSE things define what he stands for and who he is. That kind of mindset is what brought us here, right now in America to this brink of destruction of our great country. Minnesota readers, wake up. Al Franken understands health care, education, the economy, social security, national security, the wars we are in, Minnesota values and needs of his home state. Norm Coleman? Well, he has started voting against Bush now that he is running for reelection instead of the 98% with Bush for most of his time in office. Even if you don't like Al Franken he has the D after his name and that is the only way we are going to start cleaning up the mess we are in.

Screw the polls, this one is clearly the outlier. Most have Franken within the margin of error and were taken after the Comedygate nonsense as well.

Also, it's June.

I just gave Al some money today, $25 bucks from me. I just convinced my boyfriend to do the same...

Won't you too?

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There may have been something wrong with the poll. The SUSA presidnetial poll, presumably taken at the same time shows Obama barely ahead of McCain in Minnesota less than week after aother poll had him ahead by double-digits.

Reading some of these posts is mind boggling.....reminds me of the race that Smith is running in Oregon, where he puts up ads insinuating that Obama supports him, to the point that Obama had to put out the statement that he doesn't; that he is supporting the Democrat, LOL!!!! Too funny. Smith, like Coleman, has decided that since it is election time they will distance themselves from Bush, EVEN THOUGH they had voted WITH Bush for the entire first 7 years of his Presidency! If Minnesotans buy into this, they are not as bright as Franken says they are.

I can tell you Oregon isn't buying Smiths B.S......though he may still win. What is it with people who will vote for a man who supports Presidential Kingship??? And just how will those same folks feel when Obama has all the powers that Bush GAVE HIMSELF? I'll be willing to bet that Republicans will "all the sudden" come to their senses about this.......LMAO!

BTW, how many of you realize that is was COLEMANS responsibility to have Presidential oversight which NEVER took place and is the cause of this Presidency-run-amok??? No hearings, or if there were a few it was a joke, Republicans bashing Democrats instead of asking questions on topic....look it up folks, it's all on c-span.

Those of you who claim Franken "has nothing of substance to say" obviously don't listen to what he does say. He is exceptionally smart and informed, and IF you bother to listen without a prior agenda, you'd know that.

Coleman is a joke. He has backed every law Bush has broken; he supports the illegal spying Bush did (Bush's own asst AG has said so, no debate), never once utilizing his real authority to hold oversight hearings, but you go ahead and vote for him over Franken because Franken told jokes for a living.......you DESERVE what you get.......it's rather sad that so many Minnesotan(s), though, who DO have enough sense to oust Coleman may have to suffer for the ignorance of people who had EIGHT LONG YEARS of misery to show them that Coleman is pathetic.

Ed Schultz, where are you??????