From the St. Cloud Times:
Reminds me of the following Cap Times article from March 10, 2005:
There’s an old saying in politics that elections are won or lost one vote at a time.
On Friday, DFL-endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken demonstrated how true that saying can be, when a roundtable on veterans issues at Brigitte’s Cafe his campaign scheduled drew only one participant.
Reminds me of the following Cap Times article from March 10, 2005:
It's a lonely world for a Republican candidate for state superintendent of public instruction campaigning in Madison.
Sure, it's a nonpartisan race. But state Rep. Gregg Underheim, R-Oshkosh, running against incumbent Elizabeth Burmaster -- supported heartily by Democrats -- finds bigger crowds in central and northern Wisconsin than he did Wednesday night at the Lakeview Branch Library on Madison's north side.
He had an audience of one potential voter -- plus a reporter, his campaign manager and a friend who dropped in later.
2 comments:
It'd looking like Franken is heading to the same result. People like to be entertained, but they don't vote for the class clown.
Certainly there are enough celebrities that have found their way into public office - Sonny Bono and Fred Grandy both come immediately to mind.
I think what plagues Franken more is that his campaign has lacked a clear message and a consistent line of attack. Norm Coleman is certainly beatable. But as we have so often seen, beatable candidates sometimes win because of the mistakes of the opposing party.
After all, isn't that how we ended up with Rep. Steve Kagen?
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