I agree, Coleman will concede.
Place your bets!
Well, just as I said, Coleman won’t concede.
What? What?!
But his lawyers will continue to get money if he files suit, so maybe their advice might be a bit tainted…
So, is it time to start printing up “Sore Norm! Loserman” bumper stickers?
-Joe
Coleman added, “And it is only a coincidence that the votes have been counted twice, in my judgement, are Franken votes. And it is also strictly coincidental that the votes I want to be counted that weren’t are votes for me. I just want to make sure this is fair, right?”
Crybaby Coleman is his name,
whining about unfairness is his game.
Sheesh, there was more daylight in this recount process than in any I’ve ever heard of. Each side had its lawyer present at every step of the way, you could watch them review the ballots over the Internet, and all that. With the absentee ballots, Coleman could have proposed uniform standards for reviewing the rejected ballots (in addition to the four specific grounds for rejecting absentee ballots, which AFAICT were applied pretty much uniformly statewide), but he didn’t. Now he’s lost, so he’s whining. What a prick.
Well, that’s the last time I give Coleman any credit for common sense. Deep down, I knew he was too much a narcissist to admit defeat.
I guess sometime in March or April Senator Franken will take his seat. Coleman is burning any bridges he might have had left in this state.
The memory I took with me to the voting both that day was of how foolish the Coleman campaign ads looked when Franken’s camp caught them spinning footage of Franken.
Video: Franken jumping up and down at a podium wagging his finger and visibly shouting.
Voiceover: “Franken is just too unstable for Minnesota. A loose cannon.”
They ran the ad throughout October.
At the end of October Franken ran his own ad showing the original Coleman ad then added this:
Voiceover: “I bet you’re wondering where this footage was taken? Does this look familiar?”
Video: Same video of Franken however this time extended and with audio. Franken is at some type of Wellstone benefit telling a comical story about Paul Wellstone’s younger years when he was on the track team and Paul’s father was on the sidelines jumping up and down wagging his finger shouting “Go Paul Go!”
I think it will happen really quickly. If he wanted to drag it out, he had twenty days to file the contest. Norm wants it settled (or he would have taken his 20 days), the MN Supremes have NO desire to let this drag out.
Normie can always go back to New York. 
That picture on the Star-Tribune homepage makes me want to slap the smug right off his face. Bastard.
Robin
Dayumn. He looks like a frickin’ muppet.
He looks like somebody glued Dennis Kucinich’s face to John Kerry’s skull.
Actually, that was Paul Wellstone himself jumping up and down, to cheer on his son David in high school track meets.
But the Coleman campaign clearly misrepresented this footage, and got caught at it.
I don’t know that there is a consenus, but I pretty much agree with Blinking Duck. Ventura started out as a decent governor, and personally, I think the shakeup was a good thing. By the end of his term, he’d turned into a whiny little kid. He’d verbally pick on people and then complain and whimper when they hit back. He came across as someone that terribly insecure, and makes up for it by putting on a bully fascade.
It’s not that cut and dry. The reviewing of the rejected absentee ballots was not a uniform process. They were only counted if all three parties involved (the county, and each campaign) agreed that it should be counted. Since atleast 2 of the parties where at odds, only the most obvious ones where agreed upon. The rest are going to be settled in court:
That is why he is filing a lawsuit. So far, each campaign has had a unilateral veto over whether or not a rejected absentee ballot is counted. Anybody can see how that would not be a fair process.
I’m not seeing it. Are you suggesting that Coleman was somehow coerced into making himself lose?
Well, Coleman’s legendary fairness surely caused him to approve recounts in counties where Franken had an advantage, and only Franken’s legendary cheatiness caused Coleman counties to not be counted. Can’t you see?!
Aside from the weakness of Coleman’s complaints (and they are exceedingly weak), his bigger obstacle is that even if he gets everything he wants (and he won’t), he still won’t make up enough votes to pull ahead.