Is Al Franken vulnerable?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The Hill:

After winning by just 312 votes in 2008, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) sought to keep his head down and shed his comedian persona.

 

But as the one-time funny man heads into a reelection contest this year, Republicans are hoping there is one thing he can’t shake: President Obama’s unpopularity.

 

Minnesota is not at the forefront of battleground state talk, as the GOP tries to take back the Senate. It has gone for Democratic presidential candidates in every election since 1976. There is a history of Republican governors and senators, though, like Tim Pawlenty and Norm Coleman, who battled Franken to the recount last time around.

 

Add in Obama’s low approval rating in the traditionally blue state — 43 percent in an April Suffolk University poll — and a Republican nominee, Mike McFadden, seeking to project a non-fiery, problem-solver image, and there is a real test for Franken’s transformation into a low-key workman.

“Al Franken’s gonna have a fight on his hands. I don’t think there’s any doubt about that,” said Larry Jacobs, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota and director of its Center for the Study of Politics and Governance.

For Republicans, he said, “what they want is McFadden to be a passive, pleasant receptacle for anti-Obama votes.”

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This is the state that elected Jesse Ventura, so I suppose anything is possible...

 

[Valin]

@WestVirginaRebel

 

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