A real clown takes a Senate seat
It’s all but official: A professional Democrat clown will join all the amateur ones already in the Senate.
Al Franken is going to Washington:
Democrat Al Franken will be declared the winner of the tight U.S. Senate contest in Minnesota, emerging from a ballot recount with a slim margin over Republican Norm Coleman, state officials said on Sunday.
But Coleman, the incumbent, has asked Minnesota’s supreme court to require that a few hundred additional absentee ballots be included in the recount — and he could then ask the court to investigate the contest all over again.
“At the moment, Franken has a 225-vote lead,” after the weekend counting of what were deemed the last uncounted absentee ballots, said Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a Democrat who oversaw the process.
Ritchie said unless the supreme court acts on Coleman’s request and orders more ballots to be counted, he will reconvene the state’s Canvassing Board on Monday to certify Franken as the winner of the November 4 contest.
Coleman’s campaign intends to do just that, but Minnesotan Ed Morrissey at Hot Air notes:
His best bet may be the inconsistencies in challenge resolutions and the lack of a statewide, uniform standard in addressing the absentee ballots. Even that may not help much at this point, though. According to Coleman’s team, up to 1,000 absentee ballots should have been included instead of excluded, but gaining 225 votes out of 1,000 ballots will be a tall order — although not impossible, as Franken gained 200 out of the 935 absentee ballots they did count. Ballot challenge inconsistencies will have less of a chance, as those are inherently subjective and the court will give the Canvassing Board the widest possible latitude.
In the end, a dead heat winds up getting decided by the incompetence of individual voters who under any other circumstances would not matter at all. That’s what we had here.
May Minnesotans get what they deserve.
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WSJ spotlights the funny business in Minnesota:
Minnesotans like to think that their state isn’t like New Jersey or Louisiana, and typically it isn’t. But we can’t recall a similar recount involving optical scanning machines that has changed so many votes, and in which nearly every crucial decision worked to the advantage of the same candidate. The Coleman campaign clearly misjudged the politics here, and the apparent willingness of a partisan like Mr. Ritchie to help his preferred candidate, Mr. Franken. If the Canvassing Board certifies Mr. Franken as the winner based on the current count, it will be anointing a tainted and undeserving Senator.
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Gee, there is so much to see and do there, how can I resist staying out of the mosquito capital of the world where it’s either blazing hot or bitter cold 361 days a year? The prospect of having my patience taxed by a bunch of scandi, tundra skipping, sharp as a marble Keith Ellison voters who put Al fricking Frankin in because Paul Wellstone’s plane froze in your bitter atmosphere is sooooo enticing that your advice to avoid Minnesota like the plague is well received. Trust me crappyhapper, it’s all yours.
Well, since you never got a sense of humor your only alternative in this case would be to move to someplace less stupid.
Shove it bumpkin, go listen to NPR and try not to fall through the ice.
On January 5th, 2009 at 5:19 pm, chapoutier said:
Fivethirtyeight.com?! You’re gonna dispute the WSJ with an article from the son of Daily Kos? Bad read – very bad read!
If you think that what you said was humorous, you have a very strange sense of humor. I love a good joke, even if it is on me. But the joke should be funny, clever, witty, or at least one of those things! Calling the residents of an entire state “a bunch of filthy socialist half-monkey half-Canadians” is not the least bit funny. It is way over the top and just plain mean-spirited. About one-half of this state is conservative and did not vote for Al Franken. So lumping the entire state into your socialist category is pretty stupid. I am disgusted enough that Al Franken might be our senator, and I sure don’t need to be taunted and demeaned by the likes of you. Your latest post just proved to me that you are apparently a moonbat troll, since those are the people who resort to such crude comments. Go back to Kos or Huffington where you will feel more at home. Enough said.
My son-in-law was one of those idiots. And believe me, I am working on an intervention for him. He will not be allowed to get away with it! Unfortunately, my daughter decided she couldn’t vote for either Coleman or franken, so she voted for Barklay. A wasted vote is worse than no vote at all! For a while, they both were in a lot of hot water with this Mom…but since they are the parents of the most precious little boy on the planet, I can’t stay mad!
Please. Don’t give me that. First, it is hardly Son of Kos. They were amazingly accurate during the election and have follwed this recount process very closely. You should actually try reading some of their stuff (I took the effort to read and actually respond to the WSJ article). Yes they are liberal, but I have never seen it affect their objectivity when it comes to voting analysis. Plus, they are always totally transparent. Second, please show me where 538 has said something wrong with respect to the article.
I would have thought that of all people, posters here would actually judge an article on its merits rather than whether or not it was generated by the MSM or some lonely blogger.
Come on…the half-Canadian part was.
And I can say this because I grew up 45 minutes from the border and have been accused of being more Canadian than American.
I do say “toque.” I do not prefer back bacon, however.
Ha!! Chap, the part about being half Canadian is the worst part of the comment! I don’t mind being called a socialist. I don’t mind being called a monkey. But a Canadian? Now, that is way out of line!
By the way, I don’t think that Minnesota is any worse than Iceland, do you, Chap?
I’ve never been to MN, but I cannot imagine it is a worse den of rogues, theives and perversions that is Iceland.
Acutally, Minnesota has, for decades, been a very well-kept secret. Everyone thought that the mosquitoes picked up babies and carried them away. And it was unfit for human habitation in the winter. And we all lived in igloos or on farms. It was helpful to perpetuate that myth. It kept a lot of the riff-raff out. Unfortunately, the truth has been loosed. Mosquito control…excellent. Our lakes…magnificent. Winter sports…amazing. Our Boundary Waters…paradise. Our cultural opportunities…Guthrie Theater, Ordway, Orchestra Hall, Museums, Four major league sports teams…MN Wild, Twins, Vikings, Timberwolves. I know I left things out, but you get the picture. You do have to be tough to live here. Winters can be long and harsh. But it is worth it. The only down side to living here is the politics, and I pray that the liberals do not destroy an otherwise beautiful state!!
I was called by the coleman campaign for a donation to help fight the legal battle. I declined. I am too dispirited in how this election is so tainted to even give a care now, let alone a dollar.
I am just going to hunker down, save every penny I can, and come out in 4 years and hope our country is still standing. Wow, just wow, how did we get to this point?
Hey, I am no Al Frankin, Ill admit…
There really isn’t anything funny about electing Keith Ellison, Jessie (”the mind”) Ventura, Paul Wellstone, or Stuart Smalley. It is screwing up the country. There isn’t anything funny about Somali cab drivers who refuse to take seeing eye dogs in their cabs and a court system that says that’s OK. News flash, there isn’t anything funny about “A Prairie Home Companion” either. The only thing funny about Minnesota is that you clowns think duck decoys belong in the living room.
I didn’t even get to “slackjawed Scandi-snowbacks” who think it’s a real good idea to spend all their free time freezing their asses off in a shed on a lake scratching at their iceholes.
And the other half just elected the biggest douche bag ever to disgrace the senate… and that is saying something. If you don’t think there is a problem you are in a deep state of denial.
I have observed Minnesota sucking in it’s entirety. Go shoo the pigeons off your infrastructure before they cause another bridge collapse.
I would think you had gotten used to the ridicule up there in your dingy igloo.
I an one of the last people here who has worked to stop all of this. The rest seem to be on a capitulation/complacency/complaint trip. (”We wont take the “lesser of 2 evils” because we have to out do each other in our echo chamber. That’s why we have been getting the greater of 2 evils”.) But all that’s besides the point that Minnesota has been letting the country down in a major way and that you are being a crybaby because people are noticing.
LOL, I am not the one defending the idiots who elected Al Frankin. Go back to Lake Wobegon and talk to your fellow snow monkeys about how you can reduce your carbon footprint to stop global warming…. Because you wouldn’t want Minnesota to warm up to bearable or anything.
karenhasfreedom said:
I have been repeating that over and over.
That I can laugh at.
You just described my husband.
I agree.
I live in a very nice home on the shore of one of our gorgeous lakes.
I didn’t defend the ones who voted for Franken. I defended the ones who didn’t! I think the whole global warming thing is an invention of Al Gorebot and is a complete croc. I drive an SUV and I’m proud of it.
So, while I still think you are a creep, at least we agree on a couple things.
OK, we agree, While I AM a creep at least I don’t live in Minnesota.
(Where they DO have mosquitoes the size of the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz.)
Happyscrapper, I have no idea how your son-in-law could vote for such a man. Furthermore, I’m Canadian and I’ll tell you right now no one here would vote for sleaze who thought breast cancer was funny or has a violent temper.
And, yes- I say “toque”, too. What else do you call a woolen winter hat?
Believe it or not, they just call it a woolen winter hat. A lesson painfully learned my first winter in college in NYC:
“Boy, cold outside. Better get my toque.”
“Your what?”
“My toque.”
“Huh?”
“You know…a toque.”
“I have absolutely no clue as to what you are talking about, you hick.”
I don’t understand, chapoutier. It was in plain Canadian French!
On January 6th, 2009 at 5:05 pm, Me said:
You have to know my son-in-law and you would understand. He is definitely one of a kind. I think he voted for Franken, not because he thinks that a$$ho%e will make a good senator, but because he liked him on SNL. Yes, I know…he is the father of my grandson and that frightens me. But I love him even though he is a bit wierd. And I hope you know I was totally kidding with my previous remark about Canada! It was a tongue in cheek kind of remark. By the way, did Franken really make a joke about cancer? God help us.
Don’t worry about the Canada thing!
Sarah Palin was good on Saturday Night Live. Surely your son-in-law would vote for her.
Yes, Al Franken, when writing for SNL, wrote a skit about a man who couldn’t stand his wife because she had breast cancer surgery (you can read about it in Do As I Say, Not As I Do by Peter Schweizer). What a real human being this guy is.
You would think, wouldn’t you? But no, he voted for Obama and Franken. I think he is going to end up being embarrassed by both of them.