Comments on: MPR Poll: Franken, Coleman Tied

By: Mockingbird

Mockingbird — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:48:14 +0000

Whiney ass comments abound from righties here.
Is there no love for them over on Brodkorb’s site?

I mean, really.
What do you come here for, other than to troll?
Its obviously NOT to actually discuss any policy, as many have zero sense of it.

There is scant substantive discussion, its always ripping the thread. There is very little RW content.
It mostly underscores the pettiness from that side.

Patrick Black and Sweeny, Swanky, Spanky whatever are lone voices of reason on this site. LOL. I will vote for one of them, if there is a box on the ballot
for Vice-Senator.

By: Another Chris

Another Chris — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:26:05 +0000

There’s a passage in Live From New York: An Uncensored History of SNL, published in 2003, where Franken talks about all the cocaine the show’s writers were doing backstage and jokes about doing some himself. That hasn’t been made public yet, but I’m not sure youthful drug use is something Norm “Woodstock” Coleman will necessarily want to be raising.

Other than that, I’m not sure what else the GOP has to go on. They’ve tried in the last couple months to flog some material Franken did that allegedly involved a child abuse joke, or a satirical sketch in Lying Liars where Katharine Harris says the n-word. Nobody in the press covered either one. I think reporters are getting bored with this stuff. The main reason the Playboy piece got so much attention is that Betty McCollum criticized it.

Hopefully, anti-Coleman voters will be smarter than to vote for Barkley, a guy who said at Farmfest that he wants to bring back the bracero program, and has been calling for Social Security to be slashed since he first ran for office.

By: lojasmo

lojasmo — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:56:56 +0000

Norm can’t afford to call for a cease fire. He has no footing on the issues. His hold out is people who support him on the war. When it is discovered that he is a bootlicking Bush lacky on that issue he’s doomed.

By: AK

AK — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:45:38 +0000

Something that might pay dividends for Franken is that he won’t back down from a street fight with Coleman and Ron Carey. Anyone want to wager that this gets really nasty after Labor Day? Considering all of the allegations regarding his personal character, Norm might be best suited to call for a cease fire. Did GOP emptied their arsenal of dirt on Franken before July?

By: lojasmo

lojasmo — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:55:45 +0000

Aaron…your article is excellently written and sourced. I have always stated that, because of Franken’s high native negatives (due to people only being aware of his character persona) when Minnesotans meet him, and hear his policy positions, his negatives would fall, and his positives would rise, eventually outstripping Coleman for popular support. I believe we’re seeing the beginning of this.

Something weird in the cross tabs. Barkley supporters are under represented, statistically. Refusal to vote/ignorant on issues?

Lord Faris is a joke.

By: lojasmo

lojasmo — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:36:25 +0000

Aaron-

Good news. The really good news is that republicans are trolling this site rather than getting out and working for that dick Coleman.

Hey dumb..this is a PARTISAN site. Why the fvck would you come here for unbiased reporting? Thanks for once again living up to your handle. By the way, your old saw about vulnerable Minnesota house democrats is now officially debunked. I figure we INCREASE our majority this cycle. Bicameral supermajority, anybody?

For the record, I’m betting on Franken too…every month with my hard earned cash.

By: amuseinc

amuseinc — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:53:00 +0000

AK that is quite funny… because it is true. How many state level candidates have campaigned with Franken’s wife and daughter… lots! Franken will squeak a win out of this mess unless Coleman crashes with a bimbo eruption or Franken heats it up the rhetoric and sets a fire under his supporters. Both are distinct possibilities… especially the incriminating photos of Coleman making friendly with a woman not his wife. Or his wife making friendly with someone not her husband might be out there too. Either way, Coleman loses but not by a huge margin, unless that happens and all bets are off.

Right now the DFL is pushing the vote like it has never before… Get Out The Vote is going to be astounding numbers this year and as we all know the more people that vote the worse the chances of Republicans become. Watch Minneapolis all by it self, surge the vote for Franken versus Coleman.

By: Zach (the other one)

Zach (the other one) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:18:12 +0000

Aaron - good news there. And you are doin great, keep it up!

By: AK

AK — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:09:57 +0000

Dumb:

There isn’t a vulnerable Minnesota Democrat in the House?

By: AK

AK — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:08:34 +0000

I’m not getting my hopes up because I still think the Franken campaign is a train wreck. But, I hope he proves me wrong.