Despite a disappointing loss in their playoff game Sunday, by a count of 26-14 versus the Philadelphia Eagles, it appears that the Vikings are not the biggest losers in the state of Minnesota. That distinction clearly belongs to Norm Coleman.
Today, the Minnesota State Canvassing Board certified the latest results of the U.S. Senate election recount, confirming that Al Franken, who until this point had been best known as a writer/actor on "Saturday Night Live," won the election by 225 votes.
There are sure to be continued challenges from the Coleman camp as to the validity of the latest version of the recount, but he clearly faces an uphill battle.
Assuming these latest results stand, Norm Coleman has now accomplished the ignominious feat of having lost statewide elections to both Jesse "the Body" Ventura (1998 gubernatorial election) and Al Franken. That's a rough decade, by any measure. In fact, the one election Coleman did win recently, the 2002 U.S. Senate race, only went his way because his opponent, the incumbent Democrat Paul Wellstone, died in a plane crash 11 days before the election. Needless to say, Wellstone had been leading in the polls at the time. Coleman eked out a narrow victory against replacement candidate Walter Mondale, who, it turns out, has been dead since about 1990.
There is some talk that Coleman might consider running for Governor in 2010. I'm no political strategist, but I'd advise him against it. I hear that the Pillsbury Doughboy is also mulling a bid.
Norm doesn't stand a chance.
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