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Finally, a bit of good news
December 1, 2008 |
It looks like Al Franken is going down to defeat in Minnesota.
While a tiny margin separates the candidates in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race, it is wide enough that Democrat Al Franken faces a daunting task in challenging votes to erase Sen. Norm Coleman’s lead.
The two sides have disputed thousands of the other’s votes, but many of those challenges are regarded by experts as frivolous.
To win his case before the state Canvassing Board, Franken must prevail on more than 6 percent of his challenges of Coleman votes even if Coleman fails to succeed on any of his challenges, a Star Tribune analysis shows.
If the outcome of past election disputes provides a clue, Franken will have a hard time reversing enough votes to win, said one veteran elections official who has been involved in the Senate recount.
“Based upon the kinds of challenges I’ve been looking at in the last two weeks, I think that’s just not going to happen,” said Joe Mansky, Ramsey County elections manager.
Franken will no doubt turn to the Courts in order to steal the election prevail, but it looks like he’s barely been kept out of the Senate. The better for all of us.
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Deo Gratias
I’ve long thought that congress is a joke — but Lord preserve us from it becoming that much of a joke.
What does this say about the people of Minnesota that 1.2 million of them thought Franken would make a good senator? The one negative of democracies is ignorant people get a vote.
“What does this say about the people of Minnesota that 1.2 million of them thought Franken would make a good senator?”
A state that elected Jesse Ventura governor is a state capable of anything! If anyone wants to know what the term “yellow dog Democrat” means tell them it refers to Democrats who would vote for Al Franken, the closest thing I have ever seen in public life to a rabid yellow dog.
The question now is, if Franken isn’t being sent to the Senate, where else DOES one send unfunny clowns?