I’m a bit late to the party on this, but as I was catching up on the morning news I stumbled across Sen. Al Franken’s speech last weekend at a Mark Dayton rally in Minnesota, the one President Obama attended. Al can be a hoot, of course, but this speech seems to me to capture the current moment: a bit desperate and a bit antic but with so much at stake:
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