Al Franken: I never want to hear another story about how “nice” and sophisticated Minnesotans are. What an embarrassment. It’s a double embarrassment for Norm Coleman, who lost to him, and a triple embarrassment to the GOP, which rarely fights post-election battles with any sort of competence (FL 2000 is the great exception). His Wellstone meter is off the chart, as he is clearly the “new” Wellstone.
Amy Klobuchar: daughter of a sportswriter and a teacher, so she has plenty of “just folks” credibility. Positions are predictable: pro-choice, pro-gay rights, mostly opposes free trade, pro-universal health care, anti-Iraq War, etc. She’s a “constituent service” kind of a Senator. Took the lead in blaming George Bush for a collapsed bridge in her state, thus completing BDS’s turn to self-parody. Has the dreaded “Mondale” connection. Voted for TARP. 4 Wellstones.
martyred? Did Republicans catch him without his bodyguard and burn him on a pile of copies of Das Kapital? I seem to remember him deciding to take an ill-advised plane trip in bad weather.