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Note from Matt: This post is a satire based on a post on MDE. It is meant to highlight how ridiculous Michael’s original post is.

Team Coleman has made much about the fact that they don’t believe Jack Shephard is a credible challenger to both Norm Coleman. Team Coleman has been so confident (arrogant and demeaning some would suggest) that they have ignored Shephard’s candidacy by refusing to ever acknowledge that he even exists.

It’s fair to write that Team Coleman doesn’t seem worried about his impact in the upcoming GOP primary election. Given this strategy, it’s clear that Team Coleman is confident they will overwhelmingly beat Shephard.

Coleman has already spent $10 million and has access to millions more in coordinated GOP voter outreach. Include NRSC television commercials, anti-union front groups and other third party messages and Coleman’s enormous resource advantage over Shephard should easily put him into the 90 percent range in the primary. In 2002, Norm Coleman received over 94 percent of the vote in the primary.

Finally, let’s not forget that Coleman has been the incumbent for almost six years and this week used two speaking slots at the Republican National Convention. Jack Shephard also happens to be a convicted felon living in Italy and his “positions on issues are 100 percent similar to Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken.”

It should be an interesting primary on Tuesday.