Posted on 09/10/2008 5:01:37 PM PDT by DBCJR
With easy primary victories behind them, Sen. Norm Coleman and his Democratic challenger, Al Franken, wasted no time Wednesday working to firm up the messages that will carry them through the general election.
Franken criticized Coleman as beholden to special interests, while the senator's spokesman, Mark Drake, contrasted Coleman's service with Franken's "lack of any record to run on."
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Franken, the former "Saturday Night Live" star who put a talk radio career on hold to try his hand at politics, sealed the Democratic nomination in a seven-way primary. Coleman, the incumbent, trounced his only Republican opponent.
At a rally Wednesday on St. Paul's west side, Franken invoked the memory of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, promising to fight for working-class families...
...One potential wild card: Dean Barkley, the Independence Party nominee hoping to regain the seat he held briefly in 2002 as then-Gov. Jesse Ventura's appointee to finish Wellstone's term. Barkley topped six primary opponents Tuesday.
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I'm just sayin'....
Should dovetail well with Obama & Co’s gaffes.
As a MN resident, I would guess that Franken is going to win (as I did months ago) because we’re basically a socialist state without impacts from industrial downturns. Frnaken plays well to the urban core - MPL/STP-DLTH - but nowhere else. Unfortunately, that is all it takes - the rest of the state is rural.
Franken is going to the Senate.
As a MN resident, I would guess that Franken is going to win (as I did months ago) because we’re basically a socialist state without impacts from industrial downturns. Frnaken plays well to the urban core - MPL/STP-DLTH - but nowhere else. Unfortunately, that is all it takes - the rest of the state is rural.
Franken is going to the Senate.
“Franken is going to the Senate.”
That sickens me.
This outcome could be different, but Coleman is a pussy (cat).
No he's not.
| Poll | Date | Sample | Coleman (R) | Franken (D) | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 07/14 - 08/17 | -- | 47.0 | 41.0 | Coleman +6.0 |
| Minn. Pub. Radio | 08/07 - 08/17 | 763 LV | 40 | 41 | Franken +1 |
| SurveyUSA | 08/13 - 08/14 | 682 LV | 46 | 39 | Coleman +7 |
| Rasmussen | 08/13 - 08/13 | 500 LV | 49 | 46 | Coleman +3 |
| Quinnipiac/WSJ/WP.com | 07/14 - 07/22 | 1261 LV | 53 | 38 | Coleman +15 |
See All Minnesota Senate Polling Data
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/senate/mn/minnesota_senate-257.html
Hope you’re right.
Will “conservative” Ben Stein be coming to MN to work in his “friend” Al Franken’s campaign?
Franken-Stein????
May his campaign have all the success of his radio program
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