New Franken TV Spots With Clinton, Klobuchar

by Aaron Landry | 19 Comments

Yesterday:

Today:

These will have a very big impact, especially considering Klobuchar’s approval rating compared to Coleman’s.

October 23, 2008, 2:13 pm | Category: MN 2008: Senate | Tags: , , .

19 Responses to “New Franken TV Spots With Clinton, Klobuchar”

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  • Lawman
    October 23, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    Both dynamite ads! I agree the Klobuchar ad will be
    very helpful. I especially liked the last shot
    of the two of them turning together. Two ads
    featuring strong, intelligent
    women — what’s not to like?

  • amuseinc
    October 23, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    I think Amy and Al would make a great team for Minnesota in the Senate. Remember she becomes the Senior Senator and is the one who will get the best Chairs of Committees in a Democratic run Senate. Al could learn a lot from Amy and it would be good for Minnesota.

  • lojasmo
    October 23, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    Amy and Al are going to make a great team.

  • Demure One
    October 23, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    Gosh Amy and Hilary - think you can get Al to create a section under his issues statements on his website for women? Why does Al continue to hide this content under the “Partners” tab? Maybe you could push him a little and get him to state that he will support the Equal Rights Amendment (course Franken has said that the 14th amendment was really all women need..that not exactly working out). So many women in elected positions are stepping up to help Al - but when you look at his website his support of women is yeah…better than Norm’s - but hardly what women deserve.
    Usually when candidates are weak on issues for a specific demographic - they fail them when elected.

  • neighborly neighbor
    October 24, 2008 at 3:04 am

    Demure One,

    Women and women’s issues are the single most important thing in this election, and because of that we all appreciate your incessant ranting and raving. God knows Al Franken couldn’t possibly try to better enforce already existing equal rights laws…

    How could anyone like Al Franken when he doesn’t explicitly pander to women, and only women?

    Women are clearly the superior of the two genders and as such deserve inordinate amounts of attention. Women are the only thing that matters. Had I not known that women are the best I would have thought you might have had a superiority/inferiority complex. Obviously nobody here is a little insecure about their stature and standing in the world. Women out there have to stand up and take what’s rightfully theirs… everything.

    /sarcasm.

    Get over yourself. We get that you’re a woman and you care about so called women’s issues… as if abortion and equal pay couldn’t possibly effect men or minorities or gays/lesbians, or seniors too. But because you have a vagina you are special. I don’t understand how anyone can take you seriously on this issue when you sit here and seemingly belittle strong hard working women like Amy and Hillary for supporting a ma… evil being with penis.

    You’re the type of person that hates stereotypes that characterize women as being whiny attention w****s, but yet you sure seem to go a long way at reinforcing it.

    Clearly you don’t think men and women are equal otherwise you’d be asking where on Al Franken’s website is the “Men’s” tab? Unless of course you feel that all the issues currently listed are men’s only issues… in which case you’d only be enforcing male superiority by suggesting that women can’t/don’t concern themselves with important issues like healthcare, or education, or taxes, or energy policy, or the war.

    If it bothers you so much that there is no flippin’ “women’s” tab on Al Franken’s website it makes me seriously question your sanity.

  • Demure One
    October 24, 2008 at 6:17 am

    Sadly, your response is rather typical….probably one of the reasons why women are so underrepresented at the local, state, and national levels. Ask for fair treatment and you are charged with being full of hate and irrational. Something tells me women aren’t going to see much change taking place anytime soon.

  • Demure One
    October 24, 2008 at 6:37 am

    This really is pathetic especially in 2008….please sir may I have equal rights?
    Ok…that probably won’t work…but check this out - equal rights for women is a popular issue with the public all around the world!
     http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/btjusticehuman_rightsra/453.php?lb=bthr&pnt=453&nid=&id=

  • lojasmo
    October 24, 2008 at 8:32 am

    Hello, troll.

  • DantheMan
    October 24, 2008 at 9:10 am

    Just to be a devil’s advocate -

    Minnesota’s recent history is to prefer a divided Senate delegation - Grams/Wellstone, Dayton/Coleman, Klobuchar/Coleman. I guess there was two years where it was Wellstone/Dayton. Going way back, we didn’t used to do this, but for the past 15 years we have.

    Do you think an ad like this actually backfires because it reminds the undecideds that by electing Franken, we’d be locked in with two Democratic Senators? Democrats want all Democrats, and Republicans want all Republicans, but I think many independents believe that divided D/R government is in the end the most desirable rather than giving the keys to one group.

  • Richard
    October 24, 2008 at 9:24 am

    If trends continue, the Democratic party could be looking at a filibuster proof majority. This will end the obstructionist GOP program and serious, much delayed legislation will be able to move forward. This is needed to repair the incredible damage done to the nation by the Republican party.

  • Richard
    October 24, 2008 at 9:49 am

    As far as Minnesota goes, if the devastating tragedy of Wellstone’s plane crashing, hadn’t happened, then we would have two Democratic Senators. In normal times, splitting power between the two parties works well but these are not normal times. The Republican party is no longer a party that works for the betterment of the nation. The Republican party, including McCain and Coleman, is the party of corporate interests that have very little to do with national interests. McCain and Coleman’s campaign can be summed up with a simple phrase, “Corporations First.”

  • DantheMan
    October 24, 2008 at 9:54 am

    You say it is “Corporations First.”

    I say it is “Jobs First”.

    Semantics, I know. But I think the best way to prosperity for individuals is for there to be a wealth of good jobs for them to endeavor in. A surplus of jobs solves all problems.

    We’re not there today, I realize. I’m not implying that we are.

  • James
    October 24, 2008 at 10:12 am

    Great Ads! I am starting to think for the first time that Al is going to pull this thing off. Lets hope Coleman helps out by pulling some sort of Bachmann gaff.

  • Richard
    October 24, 2008 at 10:24 am

    DtM, tell me what the necessary prerequisite is for job creation.

  • lojasmo
    October 24, 2008 at 10:29 am

    DtM-

    How have minnesota jobs gone in the last two years with a split Minnesota Senate caucus? How has national unemployment gone? How has our governor done on jobs?

    http://kaaltv.com/article/stories/S585760.shtml?cat=10226

  • Dan
    October 24, 2008 at 10:54 am

    Democrats create jobs. Republicans don’t. Its that simple.

  • DantheMan
    October 24, 2008 at 11:13 am

    Richard:

    Two Prerequisites:

    1) A market for your product
    2) An entrepreneur who can understand how to fill that need

    As I mentioned in post #12, we’re not were we need to be today. I’m simply saying that being pro-business is also being pro-jobs.

    Cargill, 3M, Medtronic, United HealthGroup, Thompson West, and Toro have done more for our state quality of life than government. They and the employees who they eventually bring to town fund everything that government does. Without the corporations, there is no tax base. Without a tax base, even the best intended government plan can’t be implemented.

    I’m not saying it is either/or. Minnesota is a special place to live because of a combination of factors. State Government is one of them. But government success can only occur when the private sector thrives. I’m not a libertarian who things that there is no role for government. If this is a hockey game, though, government should be a referee. They shouldn’t be a team on the ice. The score should be decided by the players, within the established rules of the game.

    Private sector grows the pie. Governmnet doesn’t grow the pie — they simply recycle pieces of the existing pie.

  • Richard
    October 24, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    Hockey, pies, so many metaphors, so little time. Anyway,,,

    1) A market for your product

    Otherwise known as demand. Exactly, and if the vast majority of consumers can’t afford to purchase your product, then demand tanks. Obama’s economic plan is classic Keynesian economics. Help the middle class prosper and everyone will prosper. Begger the middle class in the interest of short term profit taking by the wealthy elite and you end up in exactly the same shape our economy is in today.

    Cargill, 3M, Medtronic, United HealthGroup, Thompson West, and Toro have done more for our state quality of life than government.

    That’s exactly wrong. They are here because of the quality of life we have demanded our government provide. Good schools, clean environment, good infrastructure. The minute those go away, you’d see all of the aforementioned corporations leave as well.

    Private sector grows the pie.

    If by “Private sector” you mean corporations. No. If you mean consumers then yes. We have a demand based economy. Put money in the working class pocket and they will spend it. When they spend it, then jobs get created and the whole thing spirals up. Begger the working class and the economy fails. It’s not complicated but the wealthy elite doesn’t like it because it takes a little longer for them to make the obscene profits.

  • tom a.
    October 24, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    The last times Congress had approval ratings this low were in 1979 and 1992 when, as you history buffs will recall, Democrats controlled both houses. (See, history does repeat itself.) And don’t forget, the 95th Congress of 1977-1979 had the 61 seat Senate majority too! Here’s to a repeat of the good old days! You young kids might not remember them, but I’m sure that your parents can tell you what happened the next election cycle. The next four years are going to fly by for you…

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