Jesse - Jesse - Jesse!

Well Jesse, you just cost us bloggers four months of great political sound-bite fodder by not running for the US Senate. Thanks for nothing!

The Democrats may have lost their best chance to win the Senate seat by endorsing far left Al Franken over more moderate Mike Ciresi. The Democrats only hope now is the "Obama Factor" (read coat-tails), which may still capture the prize for them. Norm Coleman is far too slick a professional politician to screw up this race before November.

On the Independent Party side, now that Jesse has bolted, Dean Barkley will run instead and have no noticeable effect on the race. Still the poll released last night by ABC's KSTP shows how unhappy both Republicans and Democrats are with their choices. So Mike Ciresi, if you are listening, you have until 5:00 p.m. to register and save the DFL and give us bloggers something to write about.