DISQUS

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

Dawgon it.

Lolis · 1 year ago

I think Franken will win on the recount. I really want him to. I was even more bummed about this race than Bachman, so I hope I'm right.

cosanostradamus · 1 year ago

.Plus ca spare change, anyone?
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cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Its too bad their state law doesn't provide for a run-off. Those who wasted their vote on the Independent have said in exit polling they either would NOT have voted or would have cast their votes for Franken. There were around 300,000 votes for the Independent nominee, therefore if the will of the people were taken into account Franken would be the new Senator.

tangodaddy · 1 year ago

Perhaps after Al Franken is elected one of the first things he does is to work for the end of electronic votning machines and insist on a paper trail leading to those rightfully elected.

eagleye · 1 year ago

Part of the reason I'd like to see Franken and Begich pull out their races is that Democrats have been so badly burned in the close ones in recent years, and a couple of squeaker wins would go a long way toward reducing our cynicism about the election process. I hope one of the first priorities of the Obama administration is to fix the system for once and for all.
We're worse than some banana republics when it comes to conducting elections.

green_libertarian · 1 year ago

"I hope one of the first priorities of the Obama administration is to fix the system for once and for all.
We're worse than some banana republics when it comes to conducting elections."

Yep, totally agree. The entire system needs reform, top to bottom. In a really close election, there's little confidence that the outcome is tabulated accurately. In '04, it took THREE recounts, and a court case to resolve my state's governor's election, with the offical, final tally, having her winning by less than 200 votes.

green_libertarian · 1 year ago

I can't believe this election is coming down to the tiny little iron Range towns, where I was born, and still have a lot of family up there. I lived up there for about 6 months in the late 70's, and ran a confectioner and cigarette route, supplying all the bars, taverns, and small stores in the little towns up there, from Eveleth to Ely, Hibbing, Buhl, Mt. Iron... I still have a strong attachment to the state, and remember well when Wellstone's plane went down, about a mile from my grandmother's house.

Pretty strong DFL upthere, hard-scrapple folk, lots of union shops.

I can't wait to see Al Franken pushing the limits of decorum, and just outright mocking whatever an idiot fundie knuckledragger like Coburn or Brownback is babbling about on the Senate floor.

Mike in the Tundra ever show up on this blog anymore?

ahaque · 1 year ago

I would like Al Franken to win, but I am afraid that unless the recount discovers a big counting error, Franken has lost the race.

Rab · 1 year ago

200 some votes is not a big counting error. Ballots could not be scanned the first time because of marking errors. Norm is worried and that is why he wanted Al to concede.

ahaque · 1 year ago

I guess Norm wants to get away it. A recount is a must indeed. What I meant was that at no point Al was ahead in the count and usually in such circumstances a recount does not reverse the trend only the final numbers differ a little.