Franken heads for a recount

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on November 6th, 2008

After 2.9 million votes, the contest between incumbent Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken ended up with Coleman ahead by a relatively razor-thin margin of 475 votes.

This triggers an automatic recount.

Win or lose, you gotta hand it to Franken. Most celebrities wise guys merely carp from the sidelines or threaten to move to France if they find the outcome of the elections not to their liking. Franken sucked it up and entered the rough and tumble world of electoral politics.