July 1, 2009Yes, Al Franken has been (ahem) elected a United States Senator from the state of Minnesota — Jesse Ventura and Walter Mondale-Land now has a new embarrassment!
I feel bad for Norm Coleman. He did the noble thing by conceding promptly after Minnesota’s Supreme Court handed the election to Franken after a long and arduous legal battle [...]
Read the full article → June 17, 2008Usually a Presidential candidate who has just received their party’s nomination gets a traditional “bounce” in the polls in the weeks following their success.
However, Obama has not received such a bounce: the same bounce that had Mondale up by 20 in 1984 and Dukakis up by 17 in 1988. The bounce may be delayed, happening [...]
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