Rep. Michele Bachmann continued her anti–Social Security media tour yesterday, calling the program a “tremendous fraud.” She told Fox Business that “we need entitlement reform with Medicare and Social Security… No company could get away with this. They’d…
At a rally at the State Capitol today, Sen.-elect Al Franken saluted his wife, Franni — without whom, he said, “I would have lost … by kind of a lot.” Franken said once he decided to run, he told…
Three Minnesota candidates who didn’t win their elections — or haven’t won yet anyway, with the U.S. Senate race still in limbo — can take a little consolation in having their television ads (or ads meant to benefit them) honored on national best-of lists. “Running,” the first TV ad that Democrat Ashwin Madia aired in his losing bid to replace U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad in Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District, was this morning ranked among the nation’s eight best ads in U.S. House races this year by The Fix, a Washington Post blog. Videos and more best-of listings after the jump, including the ad attacking Madia that used clips from “Running.”
Aside from the candidate’s voiceover offering the requisite message of approval, a new commercial by Al Franken’s campaign is entirely voiced by Franni, Franken’s wife of nearly 33 years. Over the kind of gentle piano soundtrack reserved for…
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