What is the difference between Bernie Sanders and Al Franken?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

Both are de facto democrats but de jure members of other political parties, and yet whenever I see a diagram of the makeup of the senate Franken is coloured blue and Sanders is coloured the same colour as Lieberman (usually yellow). Why?

[EC]

1. Sanders and Lieberman

are independents..

[DJ13]

2. Sanders is officially an Independant (Socialist)

Lieberman is just naturally yellow.

[Ken Burch]

3. Franken actually IS a registered Democrat.

Sanders is an independent who organizes with the Democrats. And whoever did this color scheme decided that yellow was the "independent" color.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

4. Franken is a member of the DFL party, isn't he? N.T.

[Ken Burch]

5. The DFL(Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) is simply the name that's used in Minnesota

For the Democratic Party.

It comes out of a merger(sometime in the 1940's IIRC)between the old Farmer-Labor party, a left-populist grouping, and the regular Democrats in Minnesota.

Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Eugene McCarthy and Paul Wellstone were all elected on the "DFL" label(Humphrey actually helped bring about the merger of the Dems and Farmer-Labor back in the '40s). But they were always organizationally part of the national Democratic Party.

[Bitwit1234]

10. Yes the Democratic Party in Minnesota is called DFL which means

Democrats,Farmers and Labor.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Al Franken is a Democrat and Bernie Sanders is an Independent.

Joe Lieberman is also officially an Independent (was a Democrat, ran with Al Gore in 2000), though there's a world of difference between him and Bernie Sanders... :(

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

7. Bernie is 10 years older. n/t

[Ken Burch]

8. ...and Al has more hair...as of now...this may change as his first term goes on...

n/t.

[Drunken Irishman]

9. Bernie is from Vermont.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

11. It's yellow for Vermont cheddar cheese. (nt)

[geek tragedy]

12. Bernie is an actual, living breathing Socialist. nt