The Senator from Saturday Night Live

Al Franken is a step away from getting the nomination to run against Minnesota’s Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in November.

This month, his competition dwindled down to an under-funded activist college professor who is given little chance of beating him at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor convention in June. The party of Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale and Paul Wellstone will be nominating the author of “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot.”

For Franken, since he first announced over a year ago, the political race has been no laughing matter. He’s been working hard at fund-raising, matching the incumbent, and lining up the state’s liberal constituency behind him. Serving as a Fellow with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 2003, he knows a thing or two about serious politics.

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