More votes and the voting voters who cast them

politics 6 January 2009 0 Comments

The small war in Saint Paul, Minnesota’s capital, looks almost about to end, after the lengthy recount in the junior Senate seat there, now apparently finally final, gives victory to humourist and left-media pundit Al Franken. Franken’s campaign has now claimed victory, with Republican candidate and incumbent Norm Coleman’s team telling anyone who’ll listen that [...]

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Votes and the voting voters who cast them

politics,war for the whitehouse 9 December 2008 1 Comment

Democrat comedian (and genuinely funny intelligent commentator) Al Franken must really wish he hadn’t bothered paying attention to the 2000 election debacle; it all seems dreadfully familiar.  Franken’s showing a current lead of 4 votes for the Minnesota seat on the US Senate, but that could all be flushed away. For what it’s worth (very [...]

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The media momentum favours Obama

politics 4 October 2008 0 Comments

This isn’t a post about the liberal media bias, though the discourse is undoubtedly pro-ass at the moment. Al Franken did a fantastic job of taking the myth of the Liberal monolith apart, and I’m not as funny as Al Franken. The reality for McCampaigners at the moment is that the media momentum has switched, [...]

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