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I'm back from my trip to Ohio, and late to get back to the blog. We have a party for a friend to plan for, which is cutting into the ol' blogging schedule. Still, I'm hoping to get several new blog posts up tonight and into the wee hours to freshen this place up a little.
First up, the Al Franken/Norm Coleman Senatorial battle in Minnesota. The 2008 election is still not over up there, and the reason for that seems to be. . .well. . .Norm Coleman and the Republican Party do not want it to be over. Repeatedly, Al Franken has been handed victory after victory, lending little doubt to the fact that he did indeed win the election. By a squeaker, sure, but he won.
Coleman--egged on by his party, and by the die-hard supporters--keeps pledging to battle on anyway. It has become a stalling game, irrespective of the fact that Coleman has little chance of actually winning. I decided to link to a right-wing blog for a change on this issue for a couple of reasons. First is that there is a poll up, asking what Coleman should do next. I thought you might like that. And second, it will give you an opportunity to read the comments, and see not only dissent (just a little), the bizarre rationalizations and rank hypocrisy involved when it is the Republicans who are on the short end of the stick. Enjoy.
[Excerpt]
Minnesota Recount: Panel gives election to Franken
As expected based on its initial rulings on absentee ballots, the Minnesota election contest panel reviewing the Senate race has awarded the election to Al Franken over Norm Coleman. The additional ballots allowed by the panel actually increased Franken’s lead, and the panel ruled that Coleman did not prove any systemic failure in the election or recount process. It called the evidence for Franken “overwhelming. . .”
Read more at (the aptly named): HotAir
I'm back from my trip to Ohio, and late to get back to the blog. We have a party for a friend to plan for, which is cutting into the ol' blogging schedule. Still, I'm hoping to get several new blog posts up tonight and into the wee hours to freshen this place up a little.
First up, the Al Franken/Norm Coleman Senatorial battle in Minnesota. The 2008 election is still not over up there, and the reason for that seems to be. . .well. . .Norm Coleman and the Republican Party do not want it to be over. Repeatedly, Al Franken has been handed victory after victory, lending little doubt to the fact that he did indeed win the election. By a squeaker, sure, but he won.
Coleman--egged on by his party, and by the die-hard supporters--keeps pledging to battle on anyway. It has become a stalling game, irrespective of the fact that Coleman has little chance of actually winning. I decided to link to a right-wing blog for a change on this issue for a couple of reasons. First is that there is a poll up, asking what Coleman should do next. I thought you might like that. And second, it will give you an opportunity to read the comments, and see not only dissent (just a little), the bizarre rationalizations and rank hypocrisy involved when it is the Republicans who are on the short end of the stick. Enjoy.
[Excerpt]
Minnesota Recount: Panel gives election to Franken
As expected based on its initial rulings on absentee ballots, the Minnesota election contest panel reviewing the Senate race has awarded the election to Al Franken over Norm Coleman. The additional ballots allowed by the panel actually increased Franken’s lead, and the panel ruled that Coleman did not prove any systemic failure in the election or recount process. It called the evidence for Franken “overwhelming. . .”
Read more at (the aptly named): HotAir
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