what in the heck is your problem?. You keep spouting your stupid comments about Minnesota. You could easily find worse scenarios in other states but you spout your vituperative comments about one state. Did you lose your drivers license permanently here, was your girlfriend from here actually a man?…. knock it off and join the rational world.

He would fit right into the Kennedy, Kerry, Franks, Shumer, Reid, Pelosi, Dodd line-up.

But I worry they may fear he will show them up with his profound intellect.

Minnesota still needs to secede from the United States and find themselves another country.

Percy_Peabody on December 5, 2008 at 8:32 PM

California would be a good start.

Had we had this in place for this election, noone would have won outright on election day and we would have just completed a runoff election between Coleman and Franken (like Georgia just completed between Chambliss and Martin) and this whole mess would be all over with now. I know this is ‘forward thinking’ but I think we in Minnesota could do that … at least once right?

Naw that be asking too much

Minnesota still needs to secede from the United States and find themselves another country.

Percy_Peabody on December 5, 2008 at 8:32 PM

Ok, while I am currently living in MN, not actually from here, I am appalled at the fact that FrankenTurd even showed up to run. I am appalled that he even came close to winning. That being said, you REALLY NEED TO S.T.F.U. douchebag!!!

The GOP needs to drop their delusion about Pawlenty being a national player. If he ever runs mano-a-mano against an Amy Klobuchar-type candidate he’ll do worse than McCain.

Time to get a job. Although I think SNL is all full up with mediocre writers, so your outta luck there palie.

(jeeze I wish coleman woulda clocked that nancy right in his frankenpiehole.)

Umm Al? No, not really, not so much.

Lord, Minnesota can keep him – don’t send him to the Senate!

Well, Coleman implied it when he said if he were in Franken’s shoes he’s “step back” because their state is so divided that they needed time to heal.

Basically saying that Franken is furthering the political schism which he was largely responsible for by running one of the more negative campaigns in recent memory by not conceding despite the automatically triggered recount.

Coleman did imply there was something wrong with the recount. And there have been many commentators on here saying that Franken should have stopped the recount before it started.

According to the Star-Tribune county-by-county results, there were some last-minute counts or Franken challenges that reduced the Hennepin County swing for Coleman from 172 votes down to 92 votes, netting Franken 80 votes.

There were also a slew of Franken challenges in Wright County (the last county to be re-counted) which netted Franken 81 votes, although he out-challenged Coleman by 101 ballots in that county.

There were a few minor adjustments in three other counties, with the result that the overall recount (before challenges are resolved) netted 21 votes for Franken. Subtracting this from Coleman’s original 215-vote lead gives Coleman by 194 votes before challenges.

Adding the county-by-county challenge figures in the Star-Tribune’s table gives 3,358 challenges for Coleman and 3,278 challenges for Franken. If none of the challenges are upheld (probably close to reality), we can add Franken’s challenges to Coleman’s votes and Coleman’s challenges to Franken’s votes, and Coleman wins by 194 + 3,278 – 3,358 = 114 votes. Too close for comfort, just in case some of the Franken challenges are NOT frivolous, or new ballots turn up somewhere, or are manufactured by Franken operatives.

It should be stressed that the figures at the top of the Star-Tribune’s table have not been updated to reflect changes IN the table.

Speaking of challenges, I went over the challenged ballots in Stearns county, where all the challenged ballots were posted online. Franken challenged 128 ballots, Coleman challenged 113 ballots, and the recount figures (before challenges are resolved) showed Franken netting 19 votes. However, a review of the challenged ballots shows Coleman netting 21 votes with one questionable ballot (maybe Franken, maybe an overvote). Once again, resolving challenged ballots just about undoes the shift due to the recount, within 2 votes.

What I found curious in Stearns County was that the challenged ballots for St. Wendell, which were numbered in order, came in batches. At one point, there was a string of 35 straight Franken votes, then came a series of over 40 straight Coleman votes, then another 15 Franken votes in a row, then 20+ Coleman votes, and after that the challenged ballots were more random. It looks like one campaign would challenge a batch of ballots and dump them in a pile, then the opposing campaign would challenge a slightly larger batch, then the first campaign retaliates, etc. There seems to be a lot of gamesmanship in these challenges–will it all be for naught?

Ed, good lord. This has been nothing but a headache. I feel for you and the people.

upinak on December 5, 2008 at 4:03 PM

Why? It’s self inflicted.

6 years of Al on the Hill or 6 years of TV interviews of his boo-hooing over it.