Posted on 01/04/2009 6:15:32 PM PST by gondramB
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- A state election board on Monday will announce Democrat Al Franken has defeated Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, state officials told CNN Sunday.
The canvassing board on Monday will say a recount determined Franken won by 225 votes, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie told CNN.
However, Coleman's campaign, which contends the recount should have included about 650 absentee ballots it says were improperly rejected in the initial count, has indicated it will challenge the certification.
Coleman campaign manager Cullen Sheehan said his team believes the recount process was broken and that "the numbers being reported will not be accurate or valid."
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Golly gee willikers, I am shocked that during the recount enough votes were found to make the dem the winner. I guess there is no need to keep counting anymore. No more magical lost boxes found.
Norm Coleman wasn’t a great prize, but Al Franken is a joke. American politics has truly sunk: an inexperienced hack is going to be President and a second-rate comedy writer will be a Senator.
America, you get what you deserve.
The beginning of the end of the Republic.
If a clown why not a horse ?
The American Sheep are as stupid as words can tell.
They have voted their freedoms away. As much as they have been taught to hate Presdient Bush for doing so, they have willingly embraced the yoke of Socialism.
It’s going to be a long eight years.
Stolen fair & square, right on the lines of the 2004 WA gubernatorial election.
What makes Coleman think he will get enough of the 650 to make a difference?
He should be ashamed of himself for running such a pisspoor campaign for this to even come within 40 percentage points of happening.
Let the lawsuits begin. I think Coleman has a good case that those 133 “missing ballots” were counted twice.
Be very ashamed....and scared.
why we even vote for the stupid gop party,
i wonder.
“It’s going to be a long eight years.”
NOT if we get Sarah elected in 2012!!!! I think America will grow sick of Obammunism in less than 4 years.....
The whole “recount” was a joke, Franken wouldn’t shut up til they cheated and made sure he won. What a farce, can’t say I am shocked, if an empty suit can become President then a clown like Franken can become Senator. Next up Caroline “you know” kennedy
That’s if the MN GOP will bother to do something about this.
“The beginning of the end of the Republic.
If a clown why not a horse ?”
Didn’t the Romans start electing sheep for office at the end?
Rulesare for the little people.
Recount a joke? Yes. A perfect rip off of a joke otherwise known as “voter intent”.
Yes, the socialists were able to look at a Coleman ballot, read the voters mind and declare it a vote for Frankin:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/search?q=coleman+voter+intent
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Indeed, the beginning of the end of this once great Republic. As the Greeks would say: “Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first drive them insane.” D’rat Minnesotans from here on now should be deemed certifiably insane.
“It’s not who votes that countss, it’s who counts the votes.”
Stalin
Your other comments were right on. If you have some reason to believe that this will be over in 8 years please share. After all it took the Russians 70 years to shake free of the Marxists just enough to install the gangsters. What makes you think we can improve things in 8?
Thank you and thank you.
But I still think Coleman is not given credit for battling against a rigged game.
He’s going to battle now and I applaud it.
Suffice to say if I posted what I really thought the Secret Service would pay me a visit.
the first and only time franken will be funny is when he manages to bring the US Senate down to the gutter. wait, is that a step up for people like Reid?
I think that this election was planned to end this way. They were copying the WA State model for stealing an election. Once they are successful, it never goes back.
In WA State, it is thought that the Indian tribes played a large part. A tribal member described on local radio how, the tribes vote absentee ballots for every member who ever lived on the reservation, dead or alive and voting elsewhere.
“I have a difficult time believing that there are actually Americans who think that electing Al Franken would even be on the table. Stunning.”
Most Liberals I have talked to have no real interest in politics. They just want to either be popular with their friends or irritate some authority figure in their life.
They are entitled to vote whomever to represent them and I am entitled to believe they are close to being the dumbest and least educated voters in America.
People always embrace their own destruction. 2000 years ago, Cicero replied to Brutus' criticism of Caesar:
"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions and laughed delightedly at his licentiousness and thought it very superior of him to acquire vast amounts of gold illicitly. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.' Julius was always an ambitious villain, but he is only one man."
I have to say I didn’t follow this election closely, but how in the world did someone like Franken even come close to beating Coleman? Coleman is not really conservative, but come on...there are pictures of Franken wearing a diaper! Will Franken be seated or will the GOP filibuster do you think. I am sure the recount was a bunch of BS.
Circus time in Capitol Hill. Al Franken will turn Senate into Saturday Night Live stage.:-)
Any chance that Minnesota can send a non-RINO to the Senate in six years? If so, that might be worth watching that assclown, Stuart Smalley, pretend that he’s a Senator.
The people deserve the debacle that will unfold.
My problem with the American public isn't that they don't think like me. My problem is that they don't think at all.
I’m no big fan of Coleman, but I applaud his stance of going after the UN. Geez, this is Ventura redux. I weep for my country and this h*llhole state.
Libs really seem to want to be ruled by celebrities. I think they’d be happier with a king or queen instead of a rep. republic. I know the media would.
I never laughed at anything Franken did as a comic or author.
I’m still not laughing.
I agree.
It’s complete and utter BS.
“The beginning of the end of the Republic.”
That was already the case but at least it’s clear now.
>>Any chance that Minnesota can send a non-RINO to the Senate in six years? If so, that might be worth watching that assclown, Stuart Smalley, pretend that he’s a Senator.<<
That’s the one aspect that keeps me from being as upset... the people wrongly believe the last 8 years have been conservative and they need “liberal” for “change.” So we were gonna get liberals. This way, at least, change can be correctly be presented as a return to conservative values.
Mn. S.O.S. Mark Ritchie (DEM) is so far up the rectal canal of the Democrat body it’s difficult to believe anyone would expect a different result.
I don’t think that the people of Minnesota did this. We saw news stories breaking through during the election of voter fraud on a very large scale in every state. Since nothing was actually done to stop that, I feel pretty sure that this is the will of the Democratic party, not the people of Minnesota.
Eight years? And who exactly is going to oppose Obama and his minions, the joke called the GOP? You have to be kidding. Bush destroyed the GOP because the GOP owns the coming depression. Conservatives who keep putting their hopes on that failed party fool themselves. The left doesn’t play to get even, they play to win. The RNC is still stuck in the 50’s. Reagan isn’t coming back, he’s dead. Reaganism is buried with him. We had better wake up the we can only save ourselves and it’s time for a new party that is only conservative and not a big tent infiltrated by leftists.
A creepy POS like Franken would never have even been on the radar screen in this race if Americans still had any pride.
“America” is dead and gone. All that’s left is a land mass populated by cretins and parasites who have absolutely no respect for the military and who vote for big government to confiscate money from their neighbors and “redistribute” it to them. It is not an America worth defending anymore.
Whatever. I just live here.
Every man for himself.
Before we start conceding 8 years, just the first two til mid terms are gonna be long enough.
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