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Democrats are nevertheless certain Obama will take Minnesota's 10 Electoral College votes. They explain that Senator Clinton's visits were not intended to shore up support for Obama but to help Senate hopeful (and former comic) Al Franken. Bill and Hillary Clinton have campaigned separately in Minneapolis for Franken, mentioning Obama but a few times. "We're a bit more concerned about Franken winning," says Francis Pasnecker, a Democratic Party activist. Indeed, the latest Minneapolis Star Tribune poll showed Franken and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman statistically tied in a race awash with nasty accusations. The poll also showed...
...Franken Courts the Youth Vote in Minnesota, 3 p.m. E.T. U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken received a sleepy reception as he strolled through the University of Minnesota's student union with St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman and campaign staffers. Students sporting red "I voted" stickers approached him for photographs, but other students lounging in the main lobby peered over their laptops, wondering who dared to interrupt their in-between-class naps...
...name is Al Franken, and I'd love your vote," the candidate told one student...
...Franken has aggressively courted college students here, making dozens of stops to campuses across the state. And in a tight race with Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, his victory may hinge on whether the left-leaning youth electorate show up at the polls in record numbers. "A lot of these kids are freshman, and they were 10 or 11 when George Bush was elected," Franken said. "They just don't know that government is supposed to work. We have a President who can't go to Cleveland without signing a loyalty oath...
...Moore, though, is the main victim. The movie's take on him can be synopsized in the title of a book published within a few weeks of the Fahrenheit 9/11 opening: Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man. (That was a riff on Al Franken's best seller Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations.) Malone is more or less accused of treason: giving aid and comfort to the enemy by making movies that "hate America." One soldier back from Iraq says that he and his buddies found a lot of Malone DVDs when they...