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Minneapolis discovery costs Franken 44 votes
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Posted on 12/03/2008 2:20:05 PM PST by ConservativeMan55

What Maplewood giveth, Minneapolis taketh away. Elections officials in Minnesota's largest city today discovered that one precinct came up 133 ballots short of election day totals, resulting in a net loss for Democratic challenger Al Franken of 44 votes.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: coleman; franken; minnesota; mn2008; recount; stuartsmalley
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To: StAnDeliver

He’ll just end up as a FOX news contributor all.


21 posted on 12/03/2008 2:58:12 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

aw, who cares about ballots when they’re planning to steal it in the Senate anyhow?


22 posted on 12/03/2008 2:59:22 PM PST by bigbob
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23 posted on 12/03/2008 3:02:59 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: ConservativeMan55

Those ballots went where the missing socks go.


24 posted on 12/03/2008 3:06:04 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obama - not just an empty suit - - A Suit Bomb invading the White House)
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To: MNDude
You can tell people that MN stands for Micro-Nesia, or Mount Nebo...or that you're from New Mexico but dyslexic.

Even if Coleman remains ahead in the count, what's to stop Dirty Harry from declaring the race too close to call and therefore needing to be decided by a new election, or believing assertions by the Franken people that he had more votes?

25 posted on 12/03/2008 3:06:42 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: MNDude
I’m so ashamed of my state. I’m thinking of changing my handle.

Minnesota has the best damn conservative minded folk in the country!

Just not enough of us to overcome the DFL and RINO numbers. ; )

26 posted on 12/03/2008 3:07:30 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: MNDude
"I’m so ashamed of my state. I’m thinking of changing my handle."

Wow, I expect that in your local media things are really sounding farcical these days.

I thought the state's low point was electing Jesse Ventura Governor.

27 posted on 12/03/2008 3:08:15 PM PST by tom h
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To: Jeff Chandler
This election has become a comedy.

Al Franken has finally managed to be funny?

28 posted on 12/03/2008 3:10:35 PM PST by Alex Murphy ( "Every country has the government it deserves" - Joseph Marie de Maistre)
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To: supremedoctrine

Franken must lose, because Bozo the Clown has no business in Washington, DC, but neither do most of those idiots.


29 posted on 12/03/2008 3:13:12 PM PST by Kackikat (.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Link didn't work. They must have edited the article. It now says "36" votes.

Minneapolis discovery costs Franken 36 votes

... also ...

Franken pulls 633 challenges

The cure for the spread of Blue Blight is Conservatism.

30 posted on 12/03/2008 3:15:08 PM PST by Quicksilver (Sarah Palin: Reagan The Next Generation - Thank you Sarah!)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

“Once the recount ends with Coleman winning (again), Coleman should very publicly declare victory and go about his business as senator right away.”

Ah...just one minor point, Coleman already IS the incumbent senator.


31 posted on 12/03/2008 3:15:24 PM PST by WL-law
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To: ConservativeMan55; EGPWS; trussell; All
THE LATEST RECOUNT TOTALS--IN THE RED STAR TRIB.

Will this EVER end! Sheesh!

THEN THERE IS THIS SCREWY NEWS!

32 posted on 12/03/2008 3:15:37 PM PST by luvie (Now....on to 2012........Palin/Jindal)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

“Once the recount ends with Coleman winning (again), Coleman should very publicly declare victory and go about his business as senator right away.”

Ah...just one minor point, Coleman already IS the incumbent senator.


33 posted on 12/03/2008 3:16:29 PM PST by WL-law
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To: ConservativeMan55
If he should actually pull off this theft and "win", we should make it a point to hound franken's ass on a daily basis for this fiasco.

If he fails in this attempted theft and loses again, we should make it a point to hound franken's ass on a daily basis for this fiasco.

34 posted on 12/03/2008 3:17:11 PM PST by Recovering Hermit ("A liberal feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.")
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Now I heard on Fox that they found 131 votes for Franken, that were lost.


35 posted on 12/03/2008 3:19:25 PM PST by Kackikat (.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
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To: facedown

Outside of Cook County, it’s a fine state.


36 posted on 12/03/2008 3:20:30 PM PST by getitright (surrender aint peace)
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To: Recovering Hermit

They gave 44 to Coleman, so they could invent 131 for Franken,,,I just heard they found 131 or more for Franken that were lost...SHEESH NOW DC CONGRESS NEEDS A ZOOKEEPER.


37 posted on 12/03/2008 3:21:02 PM PST by Kackikat (.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
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To: Recovering Hermit

They gave 44 to Coleman, so they could invent 131 for Franken,,,I just heard they found 131 or more for Franken that were lost...SHEESH NOW DC CONGRESS NEEDS A ZOOKEEPER.


38 posted on 12/03/2008 3:21:02 PM PST by Kackikat (.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
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To: ConservativeMan55

And to think we all believed that Ohio was going to be the National embarrassment this election...


39 posted on 12/03/2008 3:21:22 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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To: Dan(9698)

As I understand it, tht 22 vote lead of Franken’s is according to his camp, not the official records. I don’t think he’s been ahead yet in any of the counting or recounting. Except in his own and his camp’s mind, such as they are.

In fact, at this point I heard Coleman is up slightly more than 300 votes ... so given all the ‘found’ Franken votes, it seems Coleman actually picked up more votes in the recount than he started with.


40 posted on 12/03/2008 3:22:57 PM PST by EDINVA
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