Al Franken and Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer just finished addressing the convention. They’re now conducting a 15-minute Q-&-A session (Lord knows why we need another one). Then they’ll get down to voting.

Nelson-Pallmeyer gave a fiery speech that emphasized hope and idealism, repeatedly invoking Paul Wellstone. “We never change the world by saying what can’t be done,” he told the delegates. “We change the world by saying what needs to be done.”

Franken’s speech was slightly more somber. He addressed the controversies that have swirled around his campaign regarding his past writings. “I’ve had some tough conversations in the last week,” he acknowledged, noting that he was  a comedy writer for 35 years. “I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them were inappropriate. Some of them were downright offensive.”

Franken then pivoted to more comfortable turf: knocking off the Republican incumbent. “I’m going to stand up to Norm Coleman in a way that he’s never been stood up to before because that’s what I’ve done and that’s what I’m good at,” Franken promised.

We’ll now find out if he’ll get the chance.