We’ve known this for years. His opponent, Norm Coleman, was weak and refused to challenge the result.
I live in Minnesota.
Norm Coleman ran one of the worst campaigns I’ve ever seen. it. The tone of his campaign was much like that of his six years in the Senate - empty and shallow. Even before his re-election campaign, you never saw him out there shaking hands and just hob-nobbing with voters.
Now I really do not care for Amy Klobuchar (our other Senator) but she’s always in the news - showing up at the State Fair, doing consituent efforts that gain favorable press, etc.
Many voters remember that. That remember when “Gosh, do you remember when Amy Klobuchar showed up to award old Joe McHenry the Silver Star he never got in Korea?”
If Coleman had put 1/4 of the effort into his re-election as Klobuchar did, he’d have won hands-down over Franken. That election, even here in liberal Minnesota, should never have been close.
Actually, Coleman challenged Franken's "victory" for months afterwards, and even managed to delay that scumbag from being seated as a "Senator" for several months after the new session started. Both the Governor and the SOS also refused to sign Franken's certified "victory" after he mysteriously "won" due to "newly discovered ballots" being added to the totals during the third recount. It was only after the RAT controlled Minnesota Supreme Court ORDERED the state acknowledge Franken as the "winner" that Coleman threw in the towel.
Numerous "conservative" FReepers refused to lift a finger to help Coleman though, and sneered that he was a "RINO" who "deserves to lose" because only voted the way they wanted 80% of the time. As a result, they got a drug addled marxist Senator who votes the way they want 0% of the time.
Your history revisionism take on the whole episode is interesting.