Posted on 12/19/2008 11:44:34 AM PST by lewisglad
CNN) -- Democrat Al Franken has pulled ahead of incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in Minnesota's still unresolved U.S. Senate race, according to a running tally on the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Web site.
Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, left, and Democrat Al Franken have swapped leads in Minnesota's Senate race.
Late Friday morning, the newspaper's tally put Franken ahead by 102 votes. Coleman's lead had fallen to single digits Thursday evening.
But the race remains fluid: The results reported by the newspaper are ongoing, with hundreds of challenged ballots still to be reviewed.
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has said that he and four other members on the Canvassing Board will not end their workday until all remaining challenges have been reviewed.
One major wild card that remains are roughly 4,000 ballots that were originally challenged by the campaigns, who have since withdrawn those challenges. The secretary of state's office has yet to declare how or when those ballots will be awarded to the candidates.
About 3 million votes were cast in the election, and the close result tripped an automatic recount.
Franken, a former "Saturday Night Live" comedian and writer, gained several hundred votes Thursday night as the board ruled on ballot challenges from both sides, the newspaper reported.
"When the recount is over and all the votes that were legally cast are counted, Al Franken will have won this election and will be declared the winner," Marc Elias, Franken's lead recount attorney, told the newspaper
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That applies pretty much to the entire world. Just where do you intend to go to stay out of the company of socialists?
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I try to stay out of solid blue states as much as possible. And many or most cities for that matter.
You’re right, it’s getting harder and harder. But I try.
Such corruption and people are too cold to protest like we did in Florida. Edgar G. Robinson said something about counting all the votes in the movie Key Largo.
Franken wasn’t such a hot comedian. Does Coleman have a pair or is he going to just cave???????????
Those absentee ballots likely belonged to no one.
I’m thinkin’ the 4,000 lawyers initially sent to Florida for Obama were re-rerouted to Minnesota. Any lawyers skulking around Minnesota?
It was Edward G. Robinson.
Well, I was close... I was practically a baby when Robinson was around. :-)
They must have brain freeze up there. Ewe re: the pic
When one starts “naming” states that are a disgrace, the list is practically endless.
A socialist is an individual whose belongings are HIS but who also has a claim on a portion of your belongings because he “needs” them.
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No sweat Kid.
LOL
“What a termite.”
You offend termites and other vermin. This whole situation is beyond disgusting.
Quite so. My deepest and most humble apologies to termites and vermin in comparing them to this despicable creature.
Minnesota is now a four letter word; j-o-k-e.
The Obama voters I talk to have no concept of what they have done, only that Bush is gone and he was (a) the enemy, or (b) not what they'd expected. So now there is 'change they can believe in' - without knowing a damn thing about what that change is gonna be.
Oh, and guns are bad.
We don't want a 'new party'; what we should do is invite those not in agreement with conservative values to form a new party for themselves, it wasn't us who changed!
And I don't mean MY conservative values or Reverend Huckabee's conservative values, I mean conservative values, period!
Confession, I feel more comfortable with Lieberman than with half of the pubbies in Congress today - I'd rather he took up an "R" after his name than McCain retained his.
The termites and other vermin graciously accept your apology.
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