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I remember when Jim Webb beat Macaca Allen for the the US Senate seat from Virginia, and the pundits were saying this represented a new direction for the electorate. Webb beat Allen by about 7000 votes - hardly a plurality.
With Franken beating Coleman as he did, the only conclusion one can draw about the electorate is that 50% of them are happy, and 50% are not.
What it really shows, as noted elsewhere on Salon recently (cough NPR cough), is that the media is supposedly showing "both sides" of stories that actually have only one side, to the detriment of the truth.
Using the media's point of view to make up your mind about politics is like using Scientology's point of view to make up your mind about psychiatry.
