Franken Defeats Coleman
According the the Northwest Progressive Institute Advocate, Al Franken is leading Norm Coleman by 4,237 votes. I'd heard it was closer, but if Franken's doing that well, I don't see how he can lose.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:20 PM
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Obviously a typo. The margin as of yesterday evening was 13 votes (Coleman's still up) with 91% of the votes recounted.
That's great. So Ramsey County, where they discovered 171 new votes, now has officially more votes than people who signed up to vote.
Since neither got even 42% of the vote, it sounds like a good time for a runoff.
This is what stinks about recounts. Democrats seem to have a knack for withholding their counties until last, once they know how many more votes they need.
Except when they don't. cf. Florida 2000, khaki clad chunkster mob
Exhibit A of Dems holding back to win in the final count is Florida, 2000. First they did it in the final voting during the election, then they tried it over and over after the election.
Franken's only chance of being ahead is if 6000 challenged ballots get counted.
Whenever I see comments like those last few, I read them in the voice of James Hetfield doing "Napster BAD!" Reason, people. Use reason.
Coleman up about 300 points this Thursday morning. That margin is dwarfed by the 6000 challenged ballot, however, the vast majority of the challenges are frivoluos, from what I hear. The curent estimate is Franken might gain net 30 votes on the challenges. looking pretty good for Norm, except Franken may try to throw this into the Senate on the grounds of inability to know who really won a race this close. Would the Dems in teh Senate blatantly reverse even a small margin of victory? I don't know.
No, he'd be throwing into the Senate on the basis of 4000 absentee ballots that were disallowed by a wholly-Republican state court, reversed by the local federal trial court, then re-reversed as a matter of state law by the federal circuit court.
Well, the Democrats have been sayingthey don't want those parisan courts to decide elections since 2000. Much better to have the non-partisan Senate pick the next Senator from MN.
Oh, I wouldn't worry about it. It would never fly in the senate for approximately that reason. Besides, I happen to have several mutual friends with a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court, and what I'm told from the left and the right is that if he says those ballots are not legal (the opinion was unanimous), they simply aren't.
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