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FRANKEN 'FIXES' STALK SENATE RACE
New York Post ^ | Thursday, November 13, 2008 | John R. Lott, Jr.

Posted on 11/14/2008 10:39:30 AM PST by JohnRLott

IF Al Franken wins his Minnesota race, Democrats will get at least 58 US senators, giving them an effectively filibuster-proof majority.

When Franken woke up on the day after the election, his GOP opponent, Sen. Norm Coleman, led by what seemed a relatively comfortable 725 votes. By that night, Coleman's lead had shrunk to 477. By Thursday, it was 336. Friday, 239.

By late Sunday, the difference had gone to just 221. When counties finally certified the results on Monday, Coleman's lead had been cut to 206.

A pickup of 519 votes over 5 days - pretty impressive when you consider this was just from the correction of typos. A recount won't even start until Nov. 19.

Yet, the particular changes are unlikely to have occurred by accident.

Corrections were posted in other races, but they were only a fraction of those for the Senate race. The Senate gains for Franken were 2.2 times the gain from corrections for Barack Obama, 2.7 times the gain Democrats got across all Minnesota congressional races and 5.6 times the net loss that Democrats suffered for all state House races.

In total, the 519 net pro-Franken corrections were greater than the total changes for all precincts in the state for the presidential race, all congressional races and all state House races combined. . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 111th; franken; johnlott; mn2008; normcoleman; stealingelections; stuffingtheballotbox; votefraud
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1 posted on 11/14/2008 10:39:31 AM PST by JohnRLott
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To: JohnRLott

Republicans have been wearing a ‘Kick Me! sign for years.


2 posted on 11/14/2008 10:41:08 AM PST by AU72
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To: JohnRLott

We should get used to Sen. Franken and the other dem in Alaska. Now we have to hold Georgia, so anyone living on its border or in the state itself, WYAO (Work your. . .)


3 posted on 11/14/2008 10:41:19 AM PST by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
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To: BlueStateBlues

is coleman fighting this at all ? finding votes is stealing the election....FIGHT REPUBLICANS FIGHT!!


4 posted on 11/14/2008 10:45:15 AM PST by Blue Turtle (I)
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To: AU72

And where, pray tell, are the Civil Rights boys from DOJ and our great Republican leaders in dealing with this obvious fraud that disenfranchises us all? Thank Heaven for John Lott and Rush Limbaugh. We are seeing Ci-cago style politics in the Northland. Somebody up their should be more than ashamed, they should be effective. The governor, after all, is a Republican, is he not? When the Klan did this it was Republicans who stood up to them. Where are they now?


5 posted on 11/14/2008 10:45:35 AM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: JohnRLott

If Republican leaders not fighting this, I lost all hope.


6 posted on 11/14/2008 10:45:54 AM PST by FrankCastle214
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To: JohnRLott

This guy will be a major embarassment to the Party if he gets in the Senate. I bet they are cringing over this. He’s a big mouth with a bad temper.


7 posted on 11/14/2008 10:46:24 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Blue Turtle

I hope he’s fighting it. They are blatantly manufacturing votes. Franken is a piece of garbage. How could Minnesota even think of voting for him.


8 posted on 11/14/2008 10:47:22 AM PST by jersey117
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To: Blue Turtle

I still think Minnesota is a lost cause. I hope I’m wrong. The Al Franken decade is about to start. I hope I’m wrong. The rum is almost gone. I hope I’m wrong.


9 posted on 11/14/2008 10:48:07 AM PST by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
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To: Blue Turtle
The traditional Republican approach is to concede immediately when the vote total gets close.

Why?...I don't know. It's almost as if the Republican party has no spine at all.

Coleman has been in Stealth Mode ever since this re-do...er...re-check of the vote started.

10 posted on 11/14/2008 10:53:56 AM PST by Rational Thought
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To: JohnRLott
Where is the RNC?

Where is John MeCain?

Where is President Bush?

Where are our US Senators?

Where are our US Representatives?

There just isn't any Republican Leadership Anywhere!

11 posted on 11/14/2008 10:58:11 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: JohnRLott

Just another rat to be exterminated if he gets into congress.


12 posted on 11/14/2008 11:01:44 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (Thanks to the robber barons in D.C. and on Wall St. I've been forced to become a minimalist.)
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To: JohnRLott
God, please, please send Michael O’Donoghue back. I know Mr. Mike hates us. But not as much as he hates Al Franken.
13 posted on 11/14/2008 11:03:06 AM PST by RichInOC (Obama/Biden '08: "We Are Not Ruled By Murderers, But Only--By Their Friends."--Rudyard Kipling)
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To: TexasCajun

I am glad to hear someone else saying that! Ever since the election, our “leadership”, actually, since the bailout, our leadership has been acting as if it is all inevitable!

Sheesh. What a wobbly bunch they have shown themselves to be.


14 posted on 11/14/2008 11:03:24 AM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: thesearethetimes...

What leadership? The word itself implies action, we don’t have leaders anymore, just overpaid, self congratulating, spineless suits holding key offices. Before conservatives can regain control of the party we need to out and oust the members dragging us down the road to liberal serfdom.


15 posted on 11/14/2008 11:06:31 AM PST by Troll_House_Cookies (Ironically, Chancellor Obama's first re-education camp will be in Alaska.)
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To: AmericanVictory
"And where, pray tell, are the Civil Rights boys from DOJ and our great Republican leaders in dealing with this obvious fraud that disenfranchises us all?"

Looking for jobs in Costa Rica.
16 posted on 11/14/2008 11:10:19 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life ;o)
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To: jersey117

How could Minnesota even think of voting for him. ........................ = Coat-tail candidate, straight ticket Democrat vote.


17 posted on 11/14/2008 11:10:47 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft
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To: JohnRLott
Another re-count and Franken could win with a MANDATE...
"Its not who votes, BUT who counts the votes"- Joseph Stalin..
18 posted on 11/14/2008 11:10:50 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: AppyPappy

Except for the fact that we will all pay from his freakiness, he is a good poster child of a dumblecrat.


19 posted on 11/14/2008 11:11:42 AM PST by Adder (typical basicly decent bitter white person)
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To: Troll_House_Cookies

Hey now! Didn’t you see my Dr. Evil quotation marks?

Seriously, with the way the election, and the run-offs are going, we will have a much cleaner slate than we ever imagined : / So yes, we best get busy on 2010.


20 posted on 11/14/2008 11:12:18 AM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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