Comedian Al Franken in Minn. Senate tossup race
By PATRICK CONDON – 1 day ago
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — From the Department of You Can't Make This Stuff Up: Comedian and "Porn-O-Rama!" author Al Franken may end up in the U.S. Senate, swept in mostly by an anti-Republican wave that threatens Sen. Norm Coleman.
Franken, the "Saturday Night Live" writer and performer whose own party saw no humor in the X-rated essay and initially shunned him, and Coleman are in a Senate race — the most expensive in the country — that is now considered a tossup.
The Democratic establishment is now firmly behind Franken, in no small part because he could help the party reach or at least approach a 60-vote Senate majority required to block Republican filibusters.
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