Posted on 12/05/2008 7:42:30 PM PST by Maelstorm
The recount has swung back and forth between the two men, with batches of uncounted ballots being discovered here and there as well as clerical errors changing the totals.
With the recount virtually complete on Friday, Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie said Coleman led Franken by 787 votes. Local newspapers put Coleman's margin at about 200 votes, tallying ballots that had previously been challenged.
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It is a mind game. The only count that really matters is the Sec State results. The media wants Franken to win and are trying to set the stage for it.
Anyone care to speculate as to the cause of the wide discrepancy? (Wide for this race, that is.)
Let me be the first to guess. Liberal bias MSM?
I saw Coleman leads by 787 votes, that caught my eye as well. Since the recount began never had the "reported" margin been that high.
Par for the course for the DDM (Dying Dinosaur Media).
They need to master simple things like email and telephones. Try the simple thing of calling out people to volunteer that sign up. Try emailing people who say they want to help and asking for cash. Try not talking as if you are not even trying to compete in races. The Democrat brand should be dirt for all the things that party stands for. We need an ongoing onslaught. There is no reason why the election has to end on election day. Issue ads should be run to circumvent the media.
A note should be taken from T Boone Pickens, get the ideas out there any way you can. I’m sure everyone has seen those windmill commercials.
I believe the 192 is closer to being correct. That newspaper uses the precincts that have been recounted but leaves the old number in for precincts that have not been officially recounted.
The state number is complete except for one precincts and that precinct is not in the numbers at all. It's obviously a Franken precinct so the race will tighten up when it is official.
That is the precinct with the missing ballots.
Thank God that unfunny clown is losing but tell me why MN takes this long to count the votes? Are they coming by horse and wagon, by dog sled, by stagecoach? What is wrong with you people?
I heard a great interview with Burton W. Folsom, Jr., who wrote New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America. Misty-eyed lefties hold up FDR as the great savior, like Moses parting the Red Sea and leading the Israelites out of desert bondage. He contends, with compelling data, that nothing could be further from the truth, and that FDR's policies only deepened and lengthened the Great Depression, and his trampling of civil liberties was unprecedented. Reid, Pelosi and Chairman 0 seem to be champing at the bit to reincarnate FDR.
Any renaissance the GOP may aspire to must start with bold, loud, unambiguous leadership. Cantor? Steele? Pence? Palin? Not sure, but it needs to start now, with ideas, education, articulation, passion, and then translating those principles into actual policy. Another Contract With America.
Liberalism is a safe default position. It’ simple, it seems warm, fuzzy and compassionate (no matter how destructive). Save the planet, feed the hungry, tax the evil profiteers, spread the wealth, hope and change, for the children. Tailor made for an ignorant, uninformed, sedated populous. Conservatism needs to be taught and understood, liberalism merely needs to be “felt”.
We've got our work cut out for us.
Now, somebody needs to tell Franken to STFU and go away.
Notice how often they’re found in car trunks, and how often they overwhelmingly favor Democrats? You’re right, the chain of custody has been violated, and the ballots should be disqualified.
“Liberalism is a safe default position. It’ simple, it seems warm, fuzzy and compassionate (no matter how destructive). Save the planet, feed the hungry, tax the evil profiteers, spread the wealth, hope and change, for the children. Tailor made for an ignorant, uninformed, sedated populous. Conservatism needs to be taught and understood, liberalism merely needs to be “felt”.”
Well said, my friend.
boycott the MSM, to include; NBC, CBS, ABC, MSLSD, CNNs.
If enough conservatives and Republicans did that-it would
make a difference.
Sadly-most folks care more about catching Survivor than
about the state of their country.
Yes, McCain was one of the worse choses. I was a Fred guy...although I even saw some flaws in him. I think we have to become the perceived intellectual party.
The medical care issue will be a HUGE issue in the next few years, and if the left looks to be the smart party....we’ll see a huge shrink in the military budget (via demands of leftist policy). Issues like that MUST be addressed!
And done in a way that people see the obvious value in ‘our way’.
Back in 1992 I went to our local county seat (Doylestown, Bucks County) and visited the Republican and Democrat campaign offices there to pick up some campaign paraphenalia for my son’s elementary school class. Buttons, posters, bumper stickers, that sort of thing.
I walked into the GOP office and it was as nice as you can imagine, like walking into the Waldorf. Cherry furniture, custom drapes, padded wall-to-wall carpet, and a young man in a suit behind a reception counter. He was very cordial and helpful and was happy to give me some campaign stuff that he had on the shelves. I was the only other person in the place, at least as far as I could tell.
Then I went to the Democrat office a few blocks away. It was a rented storefront, disorganized, and kind of a dump. But the place was a freaking beehive of activity and enthusiasm. Everybody was on their feet, and the phones were ringing off the hook. The campaign workers were in jeans and shirts and they almost looked out of breath. I picked out one busy guy who looked like he worked there and I asked him about getting some buttons and bumper stickers. He glanced around, looked in a few drawers, scooted from a metal desk to a file cabinet and back to another desk, and finally handed me a nice pile of campaign stuff, with a smile. Then back to work he went.
I walked out of that Democrat campaign office on that day in early October of 1992 and there was not a doubt in my mind that Bill Clinton would win the election.
I suspect a similar feeling nagged at you this year.
Good point you make and I do such !!
....haven’t watched the news shy of RSS feeds on my Blackberry , listening to AM talk radio when cruising the highway & here at FR ......
I vote with my dollars by finding out WHO is profiting from what I spend . Not just the MSM....all sponsors of sedition are outed and do not get my funds or my time.
They get nothing but trouble from me !
I’ve thought about it since the last post and I believe the SOS is the official site. He announced the recount is over and had Coleman +687. Now even if he’s in error and that one batch of “missing ballots” is eventually counted, we know that that batch would only give Franken a net gain of 37, give or take a couple. That still would give Coleman a lead of about 650 going into the challenged ballots phase, and the +650 would seem statistically almost impossible to be overcome.
Thank goodness!
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