The Franken/Coleman debate is coming on C-Span

[ThomWV]

Now (8:00 Eastern)

[CatWoman]

1. cspan one?

[Mist]

3. Yes, CSPAN1. Thanks for the heads-up, Thom! nt

[CatWoman]

12. Norm Coleman is butt ugly!!!

:hi:

[Muttocracy]

14. was he in a hockey accident, broke his nose or something? it's his accent

that grates on me - it's bits of NY City and bits of Minnesotan and it doesn't sound natural!

[VeraAgnes]

2. Is this their first debate?

Oh, I sure hope Franken shines.O8)

[ThomWV]

4. As far as I know its the only one - the Independent Candidate is there too

And he does not sound like a nut job. The leadup announcer said the Independent is pollin 17% if I heard it correctly. Didn't catch his name.

[Muttocracy]

7. correction - Dean Barkley... worked for Ventura administration? nt

[Muttocracy]

9. here's his Wiki page - he's the one who served for a few weeks between Wellstone & Coleman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Barkley

[mzmolly]

32. First aired Nationally I believe?

They've had some in small venues.

[RadicalTexan]

5. Thanks!

This is unreal.

Al Franken. Huh.

:)

[wtmusic]

6. Coleman whining about pointing fingers of blame already nt

[Muttocracy]

8. Thanks! nt

[Fuzz]

10. When did Coleman get the Osmond teeth?

[AlCzervik]

16. you could show a movie on those things. Worst caps evah.

[mzmolly]

33. You mean Mr. Ed teeth?

;)

[Muttocracy]

11. Barkley does matter for the election results - last poll 43/37/17

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/senate/mn/minnesota_senate-257.html

[CatWoman]

13. lol

both barkley and al are ganging up on coleman :rofl:

[Muttocracy]

15. so maybe Barkley is just reducing Franken's landslide... Coleman lost the 3-way

gov race to Ventura - and Barkley ran the Ventura campaign I think. Coleman is only there because of Wellstone's death.

[CatWoman]

19. you think Coleman is going to win this????

[Muttocracy]

20. oops - meant Franken - will fix. nt

[CatWoman]

24. had me scared!!!

don't do that!!! :)

[Muttocracy]

30. I think I was thinking "landslide loss" and left out the loss! or something...

I'm not a Coleman fan - used to live in MN.

[dflprincess]

35. An article in the Star Tribune a couple weeks ago

when the published the results from the Minnesota Poll (which showed Franken about 10 points up) indicated that Barkely is hurting Coleman more than he's hurting Franken.

[Muttocracy]

18. OMG, is he stealing Obama's speech right now? Hope? Light? nt

[mascarax]

31. Oh, did you miss Norm starting off with FDR?

Ya know...Norm is just: ugh.

Al did call himself a "maverick" though - too funny.

[Muttocracy]

34. I missed that start and am multitasking - heard Al's maverick line :)

[RadicalTexan]

17. Coleman: "There are no Mayo Clinics in Canada"

when dissing single-payer health care for Americans.

I spit on you, Norm Coleman. Your father was a hamster.

[Muttocracy]

22. Um, and how many Minnesotans or even Americans go to Mayo for their health care? nt

[calmblueocean]

21. Franken did *awesome* tonight! Fantastic closing statement, too.

I think Franken locked up the vote tonight. He had the audience in the palm of his hand.

[Muttocracy]

23. are they replaying the debate or did they move on to a new segment? nt

[calmblueocean]

25. This is the after-debate, so they're not as serious and the crowd is making some noise, too.

Still interesting to watch.

[Muttocracy]

27. thanks, I missed that transition and was very confused! :)

[CatWoman]

26. new segment; questions from the audience

and I might add, Al is hitting it out of the park :)

[Muttocracy]

28. thanks. nt

[Muttocracy]

29. hey, and audience ? about what is "winning in Iraq" - that should have been asked at Pres/VP debates