Posted on 01/04/2009 6:15:32 PM PST by gondramB
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- A state election board on Monday will announce Democrat Al Franken has defeated Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, state officials told CNN Sunday.
The canvassing board on Monday will say a recount determined Franken won by 225 votes, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie told CNN.
However, Coleman's campaign, which contends the recount should have included about 650 absentee ballots it says were improperly rejected in the initial count, has indicated it will challenge the certification.
Coleman campaign manager Cullen Sheehan said his team believes the recount process was broken and that "the numbers being reported will not be accurate or valid."
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I knew they'd count until Franken won. Pretty discusting statement about our society, IMHO.
The left and many on the right hated Bush with an intensity that left me puzzled as to what he could have done to cause so many people to hate him so viciously; and to lead to Pelosi and the 0bmessiah's reign.
Franken will shoot himself in the foot soon enough, IMHO. As far as I can see, his only qualification for Senate is he hates Bush and all things conservative.
Methinks he’s enjoying the diapers and baby gear waaayyyy too much.
You must not really understand the character of the American people. They nearly always get it wrong.
Doesn’t MN and her liberal neighbor IA have among the highest student performance scores among the American public school clientele? They think they know what is best for the nation, like Mondale in 1984 (but not 2002, hence the Coleman aberration.
Are you aware that one-third of born-again Christians also flocked to Oprah’s Choice? Supposedly they spend more time with Oprah than with the Scriptures.
I really don’t think most Americans are mentally capable of understanding what you are saying.
The failures of GWB helped to create Oprah’s Choice and Franken too for that matter.
1994 was not related to 1996.
Absolutely correct. We again look to the WA state governor's contest in 2004 as the paradigm. Rossi fought the fraud in court and got no justice. The idiot judge said "the people" had to fix what was admittedly a flawed and broken (fraudulent) election process. Presumably, "the people" had to fix it by voting. What an idiot. The voting process is fraudulent so the voters have to fix that by voting. IOW, fix something broken by using something broken. Good luck with that.
These lawsuits are going nowhere. The judicial system in this country only serves those in power ('Rats). Coleman is done. He should fight the fraud to expose it, but he isn't going to win. Only those with power ('Rats) end up "winning".
Wall Street Journal take...
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* JANUARY 5, 2009, 4:42 A.M. ET
Funny Business in Minnesota
In which every dubious ruling seems to help Al Franken.
Strange things keep happening in Minnesota, where the disputed recount in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken may be nearing a dubious outcome. Thanks to the machinations of Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and a meek state Canvassing Board, Mr. Franken may emerge as an illegitimate victor.
Mr. Franken started the recount 215 votes behind Senator Coleman, but he now claims a 225-vote lead and suddenly the man who was insisting on “counting every vote” wants to shut the process down. He’s getting help from Mr. Ritchie and his four fellow Canvassing Board members, who have delivered inconsistent rulings and are ignoring glaring problems with the tallies.<<
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123111967642552909.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Oh, the ACORN guys have taken care of that little problem. Even subtracting the 133 double-counted votes, the results will still show a Franken “win”. This just fits right in with everything else that has happened.
We really ARE screwed. Trust me.
>>Funny how all the ballots have not been counted until a Dem pulls ahead. Then it’s, “that’s it, they’ve all been counted! Pay no attention to those ballots behind the curtain.”<<
That is pretty much the way the WSJ summed it up too.
Have you heard of the “Secretary of State Project”?
Only by fraud
the ballots are now, not even re-countable. they have been changed, manipulated, and forged to the point that fits the result they wanted all along. It took them nearly two months to count the last 2,000 ballots. You can bet they know that they are going to make it stick.
The remaining issue will be the comical freak show now being presented by the Democrat party. The joke is on them, not us.
I wouldn't be surprised if by that time term limits were abolished for the Presidency and Obama was made our permanent ruler and the Dems take over both Senate and House and forbid any more elections.
They have tweaked and twisted the Constitution to get power and now all they have to do is pass laws that favor them to stay in power and, bingo, we have our very own dictatorship.
They have very nearly engineered a permanent voting majority with the tax code. Look for this task to be completed before 2010 mid terms.
Looks like we got the black Clintons back.
The biggest problem facing us is the exploding hispanic population. Millions more who are young and citizens will be voting within in the next ten years and they ain’t voting for us. Some once red southern states such as NC and VA are also trouble states now because of the influx of yankees in the triangle and NOVA and the exploding hispanic population. Lost ‘em this time and next time they will be even tougher demographically.
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