If Pro Wrestlers and Murderous Cyborgs Can Do It...

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Al Franken, comedian and alumnus of the fabled funny days of Saturday Night Live, will run in the 2008 Minnesota Senatorial Race. He continues a proud tradition of older celebrities running to become older statesmen, like Ventura and Schwarzenegger before him.

Franken, who will run as a Democrat, enjoys great popularity for his comedic career (in spite of--or more likely because of--being an occasional target of various Fox News fuckwits, most notably Bill O'Reilly). However, his popularity alone likely will not be enough to win over the voters of Minnesota.Franken faces major challenges, said Larry Jacobs, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota. Besides needing to establish himself as a serious candidate, Franken has staked out left-wing policies that make it questionable whether he can win independent voters, Jacobs said.And yes, I did have to look up Schwarzenegger to find out how to spell his name.

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