"Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggonit, people like me!"

Minnesota ruling favors Franken as recount looms

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Sen. Norm Coleman has failed in an attempt to block some absentee ballots from being counted in his close race with Democrat Al Franken. A Ramsey County judge on Saturday denied the request because of lack of jurisdiction. The incumbent Republican had tried to block 32 ballots from heavily Democratic Hennepin County. Coleman's campaign says the ballots were not counted on Election Day or were not kept in sealed boxes. It says the request was made amid "increasing questions about unexplained and improbable shifts in vote counts." The most recent vote tally has Coleman leading Franken by only a couple hundred votes. A recount is planned.

Al Franken
...may have a shot in the Minnesota race for Senate that still hasn't been finalized. 

Al Franken got very serious about politics after "Stuart Smalley Saves His Family" lost $10 million at the box office, according to it's star Al Franken, a Democrat. He did much stumping for candidates he supports--especially in his home state of Minnesota and wrote 3 best-selling books books.

I've read some of his stuff. He's bright and he's passionate about the cause (saving the world via Minnesota) and he's amusing and touching even--in that Stuart Smalley way.

Al Franken as Stuart Smalley says, "I am a worthy human being" 

and maybe Minnesota thinks he is,too.

"On SNL's Weekend Update segment in the late 1970s, Al Franken spoofed his ideas with a familiar line: "Vote for me, Al Franken. You'll be glad you did!"  LOL