Franken holds lead over Coleman, but it's not over

AP via SFGate ^ | 12/22/8 | PATRICK CONDON, Associated Press Writer

[ScottinVA]

They could’ve avoided this debacle with a runoff, like in GA.

[Jim Verdolini]

In political speak “recount” is defined as democrat fraud.

[Lancey Howard]

The irony of this election theft is that if Coleman and the GOP were weak enough to let it happen, then they didn’t deserve the seat in the first place. Que sera sera.

[M Kehoe]

Best way to solve this is pistols at twenty paces. Methinks it's a "win-win," situation.

And yes, I would have been Mr. Burr's second.

5.56mm

[wendy1946]

Runoff is the only plausible solution. Nobody has won this one other than via how you prefer to interpret ambiguous data. Signal to noise ratio totally favors the noise.