Wednesday, November 5, 2008

10,000 lakes and not a grain of sense.

The Minnesota Senate race is still undecided at this moment. Republican incumbent Norm Coleman’s ultra-slim lead over comedian Al Franken (700-odd votes out of nearly three million cast) is too small to avoid a state-mandated recount that obviously could go either way. We may not know for several weeks who actually won–so Minnesota will either put Franken in the Senate or come within a whisper of doing so. The state’s 6th Congressional District, meanwhile, has already returned Michele Bachmann, the Torquemada of suburban St. Paul, to the House. Challenger Elwyn Tinklenberg–and this may be the last time I ever get to type that incomparable name–got close thanks to a crucial unforced error by Bachmann on national TV a few weeks ago, but it was not to be. If Thomas Frank has had any thoughts about parlaying What’s the Matter With Kansas? into a series of What’s the Matter With _____? books, I have a suggestion for volume two.
Posted by Tom at 20:31:44
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