Minnesota Recount: FRANKEN +23 and rising fast

Star Tribune.com ^ | Friday Dec. 19, 2008

[pillut48]

Minnesota State Canvassing Board review of challenged ballots in the U.S. Senate race

[colinhester]

“Can someone write me a positive/motivational response?”

Let’s see...home interest rates are at a 37 year low. Ready for another housing bubble in 3-5 years? Did that help?

[Dead Corpse]

Allowing votes that came in AFTER the formerly agreed upon deadline. Allowing votes that came in from outside the chain of custody. Allowing a change of the counting/validation rules AFTER the election has already taken place. Withholding absentee ballots, most of them from the military, despite their having come in on time. Refusing to look into the ACORN voting fraud, 18 States but they behaved themselves in MN? Doubtful.

So, like I said, you are staring at the red cape not seeing the poniard about to stab you in the guts.

[the invisib1e hand]

unfarkingbelievable.

[gracesdad]

“Then you haven’t been paying attention.”

I’d love to read the evidence of theft. Can you point us there?

The challenged ballots have been online for days or weeks for anybody to see. Folks who looked at every one had already predicted Franken would gain, and probably by enough to win.

[lormand]

Texas is not the Texas of LBJ anymore, and LBJ didn’t win by fishing for votes live on TV.

[ScottinVA]

“What a freakin joke”

Like the WWF, isn’t it? Obviously, if the election-night count isn’t at least 2,000 in the Republicans’ favor, the likelihood is that the ensuing “recount” will put the dem on top.

Should’ve known this was a pre-determined outcome.

[St. Louis Conservative]

Nope. I want something to motivate me as a conservative right now. Geez louise.

[Taichi]

This went past ridiculous a long time ago. As much as I dispise Franken if the Repubs are going to just lay down like this why don't they just give it to him? Obviously they don't consider the seat worth fighting for.

[Dick Bachert]

Yeah. That was STALIN — who is apparently alive and well and living up in Minnesota.

[Vision]

The reality is...the majority of the country is ruled locally by corrupt Dems and if any election is close, they will recount until the Dem wins.

The next Republican pres should make pre meditated voter fraud a felony of 20 mandatory years.

[Dead Corpse]

MN has had a massive influx of illegals and welfare chasers. Combine that with the Dim controlled legislature chasing big name employers like 3M out with ever higher tax rates...

Yeah... it's getting bad up here. I'm still trying to talk the in-laws and parents to move to SD. They are the only reason we moved back here.

[johncocktoasten]

I’m not saying break rules, but if you have NO WILL to take action to make sure the rules matter, you are creating the same systemic result.

The only way you stop this kind of activity is with aggressive legal and political action.

Of course, Pawlenty (named as a favorite governor by McCain) is pursuing this as aggressively as he pursues his sex life.

[mnehring]

My prediction is about to come true, now that Frankin is in the lead(sic), the SoS will immediately say the recount is over and there is no need to go any further..

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Obviously, if the election-night count isn’t at least 2,000 in the Republicans’ favor, the likelihood is that the ensuing “recount” will put the dem on top.

Might as well just save the money of a recount and automatically award the seat to the 'Rats in such cases, since you know they'll end up stealing it anyway.

[DugwayDuke]

I read on NRO this AM that the board is reviewing the Franken challenges first. They will then proceed to the Coleman challenges. The article said not to be surprised.

For you football fans, Team Franken will score and will get a lead but Team Coleman gets the ball last and should at then end of the 4th quarter have the lead.

[BohDaThone]

#28 has the key question. Each side withdrew many challenges. The results of THOSE ballots were not included in the Star Trib original count. Yesterday, Coleman’s lead was falling much faster than challenges were decided, and there is one account that Coleman’s WITHDRAWN challenges were being factored in (i.e., mostly restoring votes to Franken), but that they would only do Franken’s withdrawn challenges today. If that is true, we simply don’t know how many votes Coleman will gain when that happens, but it should be sizeable. Whether it will be enough is simply unknown.

[MrB]

Getting any “range time” in?

[Night Hides Not]

Can someone write me a positive/motivational response?

I feel your pain, FRiend. Maybe this will cheer you up:

For the next two years, the other 98 Senators will hate having to go to work. Not only will they have to suffer the boorish Al Franken, but every last bit of media spotlight will be centered on Caroline Kennedy.

Caroline will be the equivalent of a media black hole. Democrat Senators will be predictably awed at the outset, but that will soon turn to jealousy as she continues to hog the spotlight. "Live Shot" Kerry? Who the heck is he? All these media whores, ahem Senators, will really chafe at being bit players in the Senate version of the new Camelot.

Feel better?

As for myself, I've been fixated on the notion that "Washingtonians", as coined by el Rushbo, are forbears of the Morlocks, and Obama is the Uber-Morlock. The Eloi are all of the special interests that feed at the trough of government largesse.

As you can see, I need to be cheered up, too.

The Rubicon for me is FOCA, and I'm not sure that Obama's going to sign that as soon as his supporters think. When he does, and he will, the Culture War will be re-engaged. This time, I truly believe the Catholic Church will be leading the battle, and there will be excommunication of certain politicians who call themselves Catholics.

[gracesdad]

“...and LBJ didn’t win by fishing for votes live on TV.”

You’re right, he kept it behind closed doors in the time-honored Texas tradition.

[I see my hands]

"And how much of a drag are these states on our fiscal situation"

As much as they can be.