[Vigilanteman]

if he resigns his replacement will likely be muslim Keith Ellison who will be even worse than Franken . . .

. . . who might also prove to be a bigger albatros than Franken come 2018.

Don't forget that Trump actually came close to winning Minnesota. The last time a GOP presidential candidate actually did that was in Nixon's 49 state landslide of 1972. Although Reagan came even closer than Trump in 1984 . . . a shift of less than 3000 votes would've made it the first unanimous electoral college vote since George Washington.

[CommerceComet]

a shift of less than 3000 votes would've made it the first unanimous electoral college vote since George Washington.

Not quite - Mondale would have still carried the three EVs from Washington D.C. It would have been the first fifty-state sweep.