Am I right in thinking an Al Franken senate race would help the Democratic Presidential candidate ? [View All]

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I just think something like his Senate race and the inevitable coverage it would get has a real likelihood of hitting far more right buttons than bad with the public. He is a good spokesman. "Lies and the Lying Liars" was one of the best Democratic-party-promoting books written in the last decade, if not the best.

I know a good number of people it essentially converted or atleast knocked 3 ticks to the left, longterm.

As much as O'Reilly wishes Franken was seen as an extremist polarizer, he isn't. He's a comedy icon, particularly with Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers. Only have Gen-Yers (the ones who have gotten to know him) gotten to know him mostly as a partisan commentator.