In 2008, Al Franken was barely elected to the Senate in progressive Minnesota during the largest Democratic wave in a generation, declared the official winner months later by a mere 312 votes.
Six years later the Democrat is dominating his reelection contest in a Republican-friendly year.
Sen. Franken leads his Republican opponent, Mike McFadden, by 18 points — a margin of 55 to 37 percent — in a new KSTP/SurveyUSA poll of likely voters. (The margin of error is plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.)
Election forecasters roundly project that Democrats will hold the seat.
Why? Well, fuck, this is hard. Maybe because he’s honest and cares about the people he represents and speaks truth to power?
And he’s not on his knees sucking Koch.
Which is good news for the race in Minnesota that really matters, which is the governor’s race.
The GOP is MN is in a shambles, which helps
McFadden is running almost entirely on anti-Obama sentiment in a state that has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation and the lowest ACA premiums.
He figured that his folksy everyday guy schtick would translate into votes (he runs an add talking about how he took out his own kids stitches rather than paying the exorbitant hospital fee of $100 to have them removed).
On top of that, his yard-signs look like they were designed in the 1970’s, and ALL he has is “bumper-sticker-slogans”. Nothing of any substance at all.
He is toast.