Bingo. We can afford one fewer Dem vote in the House a lot more easily than we can afford crooks like Jefferson damaging the party’s reputation.
Phew! How long since there was a Congressional election with this many recounts and runoffs and nailbiters?!
I dunno, but the latest from Minnesota is that they’ve given up the search for the envelope with the missing 133 ballots. The linked article quotes a city spokesman as saying that the state Canvassing Boardbwould decide whether the 133 will be officially counted.
And still over a week until the Canvassing Board meets in Minnesota to resolve however many challenges the two campaigns haven’t yet withdrawn by then (the count’s down to ~5000 now), plus whether or not to accept the election-night count of the missing 133 ballots.
When I started this thread on Election Night, I never dreamed there’d be reason to keep it active for the next six weeks.
The Star-Trib decided to let its readers weigh in on all of the (initially) challenged ballots. Here’s what they found:
Presumably the no-longer-challenged ballots will be awarded as the local election boards awarded them: since their decisions are no longer challenged, there’s no need for the Canvassing Board to make the call. But presumably those ~4,400 ballots are pretty straightforward calls, so the Star-Trib readers and the local boards probably didn’t differ very often.
And a 361-vote lead would be pretty hard to overcome without a pretty hefty edge either among the 2,260 still-challenged ballots, or among the wrongly excluded absentee ballots.
It’s starting to look quite good for Franken.
And if Franken wins I can hear the self righteous gnashing of conservative teeth all over America. Rush Limbaugh will have enough to keep him business right through inauguration day when he can signal the death knell of America.
RT Firefly - I love your screen name … and the movie too
Thanks!
The last man nearly ruined this place
he didn’t know what to do with it
If you think this country’s bad off now,
just wait 'til I get through with it
-Rufus T. Firefly
Of course, GWB has infused new meaning into that quatrain.
Carmouche conceded a week or two ago, and Goode conceded yesterday, after a recount netted him a gain of 18 votes from his original deficit of 745.
So Franken v. Coleman is now the only undecided 2008 Congressional race.
TPM thinks Franken’s gonna win.
Even though the ‘Lizard People’ ballot has been ruled as not counting for Franken.