Some people simply have no sense and Franken is one of them. He probably gathered a lot of votes from folks that saw him on television. The power of the tube is great. I was on television once and only 1/2 my face was shown, yet later when when I entered a public building several people were pointing me out saying: “look there’s the guy on TV.”
We’re brainwashed at times.
It’s like we live in the United States of Oceania.