Well, an Instant Runoff Voting system, where you rank candidates 1st choice, 2nd choice, etc., has been proposed several times now, but has never been passed by the Legislature. And even if it had been, Governor Tim Pawlenty would have immediately vetoed it. He has never won a majority of the votes in either of his elections for Governor, and would have been defeated both times under such a system. As would have many other Republicans, like Michelle Bachman and Erik Paulson. They would never support any kind of a runoff system.
Nate Silver’s site predicts Franken will win by 27 votes. It gets pretty detailed and teh math scares me, so I’ll just leave a link here.
Seems to me that’ll be a real test for Silver’s methodologies. He was hardly alone in predicting Obama’s victory; he was mostly alone, though not totally alone, in sticking to his guns about Begich’s eventual win over Stevens; but he’s the only one I can see putting an actual prediction, complete with hard number, on the Franken/Coleman recount. If he nails this, he’s going to have temples built in his name.
Didn’t he nail both the popular and electoral margins in the Presdential election? I think he was also really close, if not dead on, in his Senate projections. Calling something as close as this Franken/Coleman thing within even 10 votes would be the equivalent of shooting the balls off a fly.
I’ve seen Silver on television, and he’s extremely geeky. He looks like he does nothing but obsessively crunch numbers all day, so that gives me confidence.
Make sure you read the last three paragraphs of his analysis article:
Franken lost votes in Hennepin County, where he was expected to gain (cite).
In other news, the Star-Tribune has called for violations of state law in the recount. Even the Strib itself admits
So they call on the Franken campaign to file a lawsuit, so that a judge has a chance to order that these definitive, clear statutes can be set aside.
Sore-Loserman all over again. Lost under the rules? Change them and try again.
Due to the exponentially increasing number of challenges it is impossible to tell whether Franken gained or lost vote in Hennepin counties or anywhere else.
:rolleyes: Nothing in that editorial “calls for violations of state law”. Read it again. For comprehension.
That Hennepin thing is misleading. It’s only because Coleman is challenging anything and everything. The real count is not known yet.
I’ve quoted the parts where it does.
The quoted part does not. Neither does any other passage. (N.B.: Calling for a lawsuit to challenge or test a law is not the same as calling for a violation of a law. As you know.)
Nobody has lost under the rules yet. BTW, which side is it that is challenging perfectly marked ballots because they have a vote for McCain and a vote for Franken?
Let’s just overlook what twenty pages of legislation says.
Convince yourself of whatever you like - I realize that anything and everything that Franken does is going to be fine with you. After all, he is a Democrat.
And nothing he does will please you. You are still a repub after the disaster they caused.
Didn’t you know? Despite the fact that the Republicans had been in control of the House for 12 years and the White House for 8, the economic meltdown is all Carter’s and Clinton’s faults.
And who’s this “Loserman” you keep bringing up? You mean the guy running around the country the last few months telling us why we must not elect Obama? That Loserman?
Yes. The one about whom the President-elect was big enough to ask Senate Dems not to show him the door.
And Trumans and Kennedys.
Not that I expect facts to put a damper on your enthusiasm, but unless you can come up with a quote where I blamed Carter or Clinton for the currect recession, I would appreciate if you could refrain from making things up and assigning them to me. Be responsible for your own fantasies, if you please.
I think Republicans and Democrats have equally sucked. 