The former 'Saturday Night Live' cast member jumped out with early lead!http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26631749

"[Democrat candidate] Lord Faris, part of a well-regarded family in state Democratic politics, criticized Franken for "angry and offensive public behavior" [Franken's comedy material] and said he'd be too easy a target for [imcumbent Republican Senator] Coleman and his allies.

With 33 percent of precincts reporting, Franken had 68 percent of the vote to Lord Faris' 28 percent."

Heh.

A quick check at:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Senate/Maps/Sep09-s.html

shows that the incumbent is barely holding on to his seat. Franken has a real chance of becoming a Senator.

here:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Senate/Maps/Sep09-s.html

Franken has a real chance of becoming a Senator.

He is good enough and smart enough, and doggone it, people like him.

Go AL!!

I am eager to see how he does. After all the comedy, and his stint on AAR, his Iraq tours, it's clear he actually cares.

Maybe he will do some good things.

Anything to keep him off the radio.

I guess if the folks in MN are stupid enough to elect a pro wrestler, they are certainly stupid enough to elect Al Franken.

Folks in Tenn were stupid enough to elect Fred Thompson were they not?

To follow that line of thought Skybill...people are even stupid enough to elect a former baseball owner...twice. So that makes them twice as stupid!

Actually that's 4 times as stupid -- 2 squared is 4 times -- right? (Someone check my math.)

And the folks in a certain eastern state are stupid enough to repeatedly re-elect an alcoholic who got his mistress knocked up and then drowned her.

You bet there are a lot of stupid people out there!

Let's see if...2(a -3) + 4b - 2(a -b -3) + 5...

Skep you're totally on the money.