He got the required 60% on the first ballot. There is still a primary in September, but absent a dead girl/live boy^* revelation, he is the nominee.

I guess that this decade is all about him, Al Franken.

Here’s hoping that he kicks that phony Norm Coleman, who is proof of that old adage, “If you can’t fool all of the people all of the time, you should start breeding them for stupidity.”^†

^*Edwin Edwards, when discovering that he would be facing David Duke in the Louisiana governor’s race, said that the the only way that he would lose were if he were, “caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy”.
^†Dave Sim, in his comic book Cerebus, some time around issue 20.