Crawling From The Wreckage
By Mitch Berg
Al Franken got around 2/3 of the vote yesterday.
In the DFL Primary, where the usual margin of victory among endorsed DFL candidates compares to those of Robert Mugabe or Leonid Brezhnev – conservatively, 100+%.
Frankly, these totals must be giving Franken’s campaign alot of heartburn. If they aren’t, they should be. As Michael said here, this is a “total embarassment” to Team Franken. To say that Franken doesn’t appeal to central Minnesota voters is understatement. Frankly, I don’t see Franken’s appeal to independents or moderates.
The Unhinged Left is his base. It doesn’t extend beyond that, which means that he’s toast this November. Any statewide candidate that can’t appeal to voters beyond their traditional base is history.
I thought it was reasonable to ask if Al Franken would get less than 90 percent in the primary election. I thought Franken would get over 90 percent. But Franken got less than 90 percent and 80 percent…he even got less than 70 percent. As of 11:49 p.m., Franken has only received 65 percent of the vote in the DFL primary election.
Tonight’s primary results are a total embarrassement for Team Franken.
And Al Franken’s organ-grinder blogpet Aaron Landry:
Analyzing primaries can many times be a fruitless adventure, but hey, why not? Here’s a couple numbers I found interesting:
While Priscilla Lord Faris got 29% of the vote, for some strange reason the amount of people that chose to vote in the DFL column was just shy of double that of the GOP.
Right. Because it’s a contested vote. That draws people.
I think there are some people on the right that wouldn’t believe that DFLers in Minnesota outnumber GOP’ers 2 to 1.
And, silly as we might look, we’re supported by the last couple of election results, in which we finish between two and six points out of the majority.
Who are all these people voting in the DFL slot?
I dunno, but a third of ’em don’t seem all that thrilled by A-Frank.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
As one who cast his vote for Coleman in case DFLers tried to sabotage things by voting against him, I wonder if part of Lord Faris’ support was Republicans who wanted to embarass Franken.
As if that were possible. :^)
OK, kudos to Lord Faris for running a decent campaign against the class clown.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I voted for Priscilla.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I left the Senate slot blank but otherwise voted for both of the Republican candidates who ran unopposed.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I wasn’t too worried about the Senate race – the action in my area (Ramsey County) concerns the County Board. My preferred candidate (Rick Moses) made it through and now has a chance to unseat Jan Parker, who really needs unseating.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
As an interesting side note I saw a Lord Faris ad on the Tuesday KSTP 10PM news and a friend told me that they saw one on Jay Leno that night.
Both of these occurred after the primary polls had closed.
September 11th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Ads get bought and programmed for past-due dates commonly enough. Sometimes clients are idiots and simply say they want an ad to run all day… sometimes the sales folks are idiots.
Usually, it is funnier than Hell.
You’ve got to love ads bought in advance, say for example promoting a ski resort, that gets airtime after the weather radically changes in the last stretch of winter.