| Jamie Dupree |
Franken Lead Now 48 In Minnesota
Officially, Democrat Al Franken leads Sen. Norm Coleman by 251 votes, but when the waived challenges are added in, that lead will be down to just 48.
Remember, it was Franken's top campaign aide who predicted that after this group of ballots was added in, that Franken would lead by between 35 and 50 votes.
How crazy.
Also today, the Minnesota Supreme Court will be asked to rule on a group of ballots that Republican lawyers say were counted twice - mostly in favor of Franken.
Still to be deal with are about 1,600 absentee ballots that were at first rejected. For whatever reason, the conventional wisdom is that those will favor Franken and not Coleman.
Franken took his first lead last Friday.
It's now seven weeks after Election Day. And I would be surprised if this is finished two weeks from today, when the new Congress convenes.
One interesting note along those lines. If on January 6 there is no winner, then the office of Sen. Coleman will have to shut down, because there is no longer someone in the seat now held by the senior Senator from Minnesota.
What others are saying
- frankenI can't wait for Franken to be seated...Live from the Chambers of the United States Senate, it's the Frank 'n Franken Show.
- NEW ELECTION!!!!
- frankenthis isnt about counting all the votes. All the LEGAL votes have been counted at least twice. This is about Franken CREATING votes until he is the winner. Democrats do not want to "count" all the votes they want to invent votes.
If Coleman doesn't plead this through the courts up to the SCOTUS then he is a wimp and deserves to lose. - Franken FRAUD.Another incident of voter fraud. Was ACORN involved in this campaign also?
Question-Why are all the FOUND & uncountered ballots mostly for Franken??
Makes one womder how many PHONY ballots were created before, during or after the election. Something must be done to clean up this 'rigged' system or the unsavory will always win at our peril. - I saw this coming!As soon as I saw the original story about the recount, I knew the recount would go on and on until they came up with enough votes to make Franken the winner.
- Franken/ColemanWow, you very transparently recount ALL the votes (unlike FL) and the Righties call foul and assume there is fraud because their boy loses.
Of course, they assume fraud, because that ‘s how they’d win given the chance. - Minnesota election.Franken see how many votes he trails by, and then magically comes up with just enough votes to win. Wow, why am I not surprised. Shades of the old Texas party politics.
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