It was infuriating in the extreme to see both the Star Tribune (supposedly "liberal" paper) and Pioneer Press (no surprise) endorse Coleman based on his "independence and potential for bi-partisan leadership" conveniently forgetting that Coleman was Bush's lapdog and point attack chihuahua on the oil for food "scandal" et. al.. It was only when the Republicans were tossed out of the majority that this reptile slithered into a new act of "post-partisan cooperation".

Postpartisanship, the last refuge of the scoundrel and the Village's default position.

So apparently Coleman is around 800 ahead and given that Minnesota almost exclusively uses optically scanned paper ballots, even if it is bad news we are less worried here that the election was stolen.

Wouldn't be any less pissed, just not feeling robbed.

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I guess many had no problem splitting tickets when voting. Don't tell me Obama's refusal to brand himself a Democrat and go after the Republican brand more didn't hurt Democrats. Why would his voters think it was important to vote against all Republicans? He certainly didn't tell them that.

It was a good victory last night for Democrats, but I can't help noticing how many of these close races did not go their way. I hope I'm not the only one.

And Michelle Bachmann won too, and so did Erik Paulson in an open seat in a moderate (but admittedly historically Republican) district.

Another local perspective: the Franken campaign told local reporters last night that they felt that if Obama got 56%(!) of the vote that Franken would win. Obama got 54% the last time I noticed.

Hillary came here and campaigned hard for Franken all over the state (two days worth), but I certainly don't remember seeing Obama do the same.]

Apparently he did spend a lot of money running ads in red states though....

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not really big on identifying himself as a Democrat.

Amazing.

Mitch McConnell losing was probably not in the cards--Franken winning certainly was. Who did the third party candidate take votes from?

What did Obama do for him, anyone know? Here in northern NJ we got no ads except for the national broadcast buys--which were only attacks on McCain or fluff ads for Obama.

There was a somewhat sad 527(?) ad against Obama, calling him risky and featuring Rev. Wright's rant of "God damn America," but that was, iirc only on Sunday and Monday. It was sponsored by some group calling itself the Republican Trust, or some weird thing like that. Perhaps it was put out by supporters of Obama to make the Repubs look even worse!

But downticket ads from Obama? Nope, and that rhymes with hope.