Actually, it was the Jesse Ventura candidate who put Franken in the Senate, it was a three way race, between the GOP, the Dems and the Flakes. I think the real core problem with this mess is that unlike most states, MN doesn't provide for a run off election if one candidate does not receive over 50 percent of the votes. A runoff between Franken and Coleman would have settled the thing to everyone's satisfaction. In the end tho, I doubt that the MN voters will be unhappy, because 2/3's of them voted for someone other than Coleman, so most of them didn't want the guy as their senator anyway.