I sometimes wonder why political ads are so rarely clever the way, you know, real ads are. Al Franken, naturally enough, is shaking things up:







I don't really know anything about Franken's opponent in the primary, so I'd hesitate to say anything substantive about the race but I feel like this kind of innovation is a good thing.

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