Al Franken Off and Running

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This will be a race I look forward to following. I am going to have to add another section to my Google news page for Al Franken.

ROCHESTER, MINN ... Saturday morning, virtually everyone at the DFL state convention here thought it would take multiple ballots before either Al Franken or Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer would win endorsement for the U.S. Senate race. Many were even speculating that if it got to four ballots, Nelson-Pallmeyer could win.

But at 1:15 p.m., the first ballot was held. There wouldn't be a second.

Franken, who was supposed to be damaged goods, won 62 percent of the delegate support. And that was it.

He is the DFL's endorsed candidate for the U.S. Senate and, barring some increasingly unlikely primary challenge, will face the Republican's endorsed candidate, incumbent Norm Coleman, in November.

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