MN Sen Recount (UPDATE: Stuart Smalley certified winner, lawsuit forthcoming)

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Franken will win this race. The Democrats will make sure of it.

Absolutely, I'm very doubtful that Coleman has enough recount efforts.  There is very little scrutiny, or backlash against Coleman's large loss of votes.  It just doesn't make sense that Coleman would lose ~800 votes before the recount has even started.

he has?

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Coleman +143 according to StarTrib, 30% recounted, but only 8% in Minneapolis.

it's becoming more difficult to continue to expect the worst.

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I've not really been following this all that closely... who's favoured to win now [qm].

Franken is a 62.0 - 36.5 favorite on Intrade.

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Coleman +143 according to StarTrib, 30% recounted, but only 8% in Minneapolis.

it's becoming more difficult to continue to expect the worst.

What is the worst?

Coleman winning

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Coleman +143 according to StarTrib, 30% recounted, but only 8% in Minneapolis.

it's becoming more difficult to continue to expect the worst.

i see +162 for Coleman right now

now I am seeing 142 as of an update 10 mins ago.  are you looking at this, or something else?

http://ww2.startribune.com/news/metro/elections/returns/2008/recount/msenci.html

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StarTrib says 136

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StarTrib says 136

They appear to be ahead of the SoS right now, so this is the most current number.

How does a newspaper get the results before the agency in charge of counting the results?

only one is run for profit

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is there any chance that we don't know the winner by January 6th?

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New ballots!

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2008/11/19_challenged_ballots/

Does anyone know if we'll be able to find out which of the challenged ballots were counted? I really want to know what ends up happening to Lizard People

Bachmen!

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StarTrib says 163

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are the vote challenges the reason both candidates have lost votes as a result of the recount?

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technically the guy voted for Norm Coleman for Judge 16.  perhaps the Coleman campaign will argue that the voter meant to cast the vote for Coleman for Senate.

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Coleman up to 180 vote lead.  YEAH BABY!

Franken = done

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Eh I don't really get why Coleman is supposed to be so evil, and thus don't care if he wins. Really couldn't care if Franken doesn't become a senator. Seriously he doesn't seem like a senator. I could buy him as a representative, I could also see him as governor, but not senator.

Coleman is a complete turncoat.  he's a former weed dealer who is now opposed to medical marijuana.  consider that, which is just a microcosm.


this gem also pisses me off:

''To be very blunt and God watch over Paul's soul, I am a 99 percent improvement over Paul Wellstone. Just about on every issue.''

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Team Franken says they're down 84

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lol 7-1

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I would like to see much more of this.

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I'm all for destroying democracy, but only when it benefits me!

What, you say that if such things become routinized, it could eventually hurt my wishes in a big way (Gore)?  No....

this would be retaliation for Gore

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There are many reasons why I want this election to be over, and the shrill partisanship of the Dems on this board in their love for Al Franken is certainly one of them.

I'm not a Dem and I don't like Al Franken too much (although I think the idea of Senator Franken is inherently entertaining).  I just hate Norm Coleman sooo much omgggg

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why are you guys tired of this?  fiascoes such as these are what we junkies live for.

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I'm all for destroying democracy, but only when it benefits me!

What, you say that if such things become routinized, it could eventually hurt my wishes in a big way (Gore)?  No....

this would be retaliation for Gore

Wouldn't Washington 2004 be retaliation for Gore?

arguably but I don't really care about that


besides the people here that know about what happened there seem to think that it wasn't stolen

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I thought it was 270.  Doesn't matter however.  It's already been determined that the final results will be Frankin by 27 votes.  You know, regression analysis by the world's foremost statistician.  Just ask him.

if you "just ask him" he will tell you that the MoE on his analysis is such that it only makes Franken the smallest of favorites.  stop distorting what the dude said.

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are Franken's challenges as retarded as are Coleman's?

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Franken back up to 47.9 to win.

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Franken now the favorite on InTrade btw.

"a challenge fit for a man when I'm just a kid."  -Bayside

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Franken now up 70-30 on Intrade.