I think Ventura pissed off to many people after his time as governor that he wont win,
the best he can hope to do is split the Democrat/Indie vote between himself and Franken,
if he enters, I believe Coleman will win, This is how Pawlenty keeps winning damnit! 3rd parties end up spliting the votes the Democrat would always take.
so I am none to happy about him possibly entering.
sigh.....
Ventura pissed off too many politicians while he was in power... I don't think the public cared that much, outside of the few prudes that got up in arms about the XFL gig.
The last poll had Ventura drawing almost equally from both Franken and Coleman, maybe a little more from Coleman. If Ventura can sell his libertarian side, he might become more Bob Barr than Ralph Nader.
As far as Pawlenty goes, remember that Hatch ran an unappealing and errored campaign and even then only lost by 1%. If we'd run someone as credible as, say, Klobuchar, I think we could've won despite 3rd party interference.
the problem is Fraken is far from perfect in MN, and we were ALREADY having problems with him, lets just be nice and say Ventura only takes 5% from Fraken?
well we were at beset 2-3 points behind and now we are losing hopefully only 3-5 points to Ventura, thats alot to make up.
I was already worried about Fraken, I was hoping this landlord thing would knock coleman down a step or two, but I honestly don't like Frankens chances if Ventura is in the race
ESPECIALLY if he brings up that he was the one who fought for the light rail or more money in transportation, because those are franken voters he will peel away, not Coleman
Ah, I hadn't seen the Rasmussen poll with Franken only 3% behind in a 2-way race, but I still think that it's too early to predict doom and gloom.
I think Republicans are a swing vote in a 3-way race, while Democrats will come back to Franken if he makes his case as running as a Wellstone surrogate.
The only thing I ask of the "Third Parties" out there is please, for the love of God run a serious candidate for once.
Please, because at this point I am waving my American flag at the beauty of the 2 party system.
Ralph Nader
Cynthia McKinney
Jesse Ventura
Ron Paul (too much of a coward to drop the magic 'R')
The problem with these folks is they could care less about the American people and moving them foward. Ask any of those 'candidates' what there plans would have been to instill their agendas.
Ventura IS a serious candidate. He was my governor for four years.
Don't put him in that list just because he used to be a professional wrestler.
I suppose you're going to discount Schwartzenegger, too?
