Shooting Blanks by Jim Kessler from DemocracyJournal.com In recent election cycles, the greatest feat of liberal tightrope walking has occurred not over abortion, but over gun safety. Candidates talk about renewing the assault weapons ban, then mumble something about the rights of hunters. But there is a better way to take on this issue—one that would yield real reductions in violence without adversely affecting law-abiding gun owners. There are 280 million firearms in private hands in America...

Watching this Senator election, I think the anti-Coleman sentiment is there. The negative attacks affected him more, especially when Franken came out with commercial that explained that the footage Coleman used of Al flailing his arms was really just a story he told about Wellstone. I think the Research 2000 data bears this out. Already voted numbers run like this: Obama 58% McCain 34% Franken 45% Coleman 33% Barkley 22% It looks like McCain and Coleman have drawn the same voting percent...