Poll Puts Al Franken at Only 39% Approval in Minnesota

The reason? Obama is at 37%, and Al Franken has been a loyal Yes Man for Obama and Obamacare.

Franken's at 51% disapproval (people who rate his job performance as "fair" or poor).

Meanwhile, the GOP is taking the Federalist Meatball's advice and looking to expand the 2014 Senate contest into blue states.

In 2012, Democrats snagged Senate seats from Republicans in states where the GOP should have prevailed with relative ease.

In 2014, Republicans want to show they can play that game, too.

The GOP could conceivably capture the Senate by winning in seven states currently represented by Democrats but that Mitt Romney carried. But running the table in those states is a very tall task, party strategists freely acknowledge, so they’re working to expand the map of competitive races to states like Iowa, Michigan, Colorado and several others.

Franken only got 42% of the vote in a three-way split last time, and only won was credited as winning after a contested recount, barely beating being claimed to have beaten Norm Coleman.

Norm Coleman has taken a pass on running this year.

In case you didn't see this reported: Scott Brown seems to be considering running for Senate again... in neighboring state New Hampshire, rather than current home Massachusetts. He's sold his Massachusetts home and is spending time in the Granite State.

I don't know-- that seems to me to be No Big Deal, because, come on, the differences between two neighboring seem small enough that New Hampshirites* wouldn't think, "My God, we can't elect this man; he doesn't understand our culture."

But then, people are very state-proud, especially political people.

* This is probably wrong. But here's the thing: I don't care.

posted by Ace at 06:19 PM

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