[Nickel]

I've been dying to find out if Al Franken got the nod. I had to look it up. Apparently, he's second to some guy named Coleman, but only just -- a difference of about 600 votes, which could mean recounts that go on into December...

[Ferretlover]

I've been dying to find out if Al Franken got the nod. I had to look it up. Apparently, he's second to some guy named Coleman, but only just -- a difference of about 600 votes, which could mean recounts that go on into December...

Yes, they need to do a recount. According to local news, Coleman is ahead by 706 votes. There has been no mention of absentee ballots that may not have been included.

[Ludi]

"Whither Al Franken," please. Not "wither."

[dohboi]

In MN, a race this close automatically triggers a recount by Law. The latest estimate is that it won't be till well into December that this thing is finally decided.

I know in my neighborhood in Mpls some 300 residents of a cooperatively owned apartment building had their votes challenged because they did not have separate bill for each unit to prove residence (on acceptable form of ID accepted for registering at the polling site).

I'm sure there are many more such issues, any one of which might throw this thing one way or the other.

And that's a good point about absentee ballots.

I'm not terribly impressed with Al, but Coleman has been mostly a pathetic lapdog for almost all of Bush and Co.'s disastrous policies.

[ReverseEngineer]

This was the only race I cared about. We NEED sombebody genuinely FUNNY in the Senate

Last report I read was 591 Votes down for Al.

This will be going on for a while.

Reverse Engineer

[Nickel]

"Whither Al Franken," please. Not "wither."

Went back and forth on that one. Should have consulted Mr. Webster.

[vision-master]

I voted for him!

[Nickel]

Last report I read was 591 Votes down for Al.

This will be going on for a while.

"I ran for the Senate and I didn't quite make it and that's... okay. Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people voted for me!"

[Nickel]

I voted for him!

I didn't!

[erl]

I think I rather prefer "wither."

[DomusAlbion]

I think I rather prefer "wither."

+1

A truly obnoxious fellow.

[threadbear]

I love Al Franken.

[Plantagenet]

with·er (wr)
v. with·ered, with·er·ing, with·ers
v.intr.
1. To dry up or shrivel.
2. To lose freshness; droop.
v.tr.
1. To cause to shrivel or fade.
2. To render speechless or incapable of action; stun:

example: Al Franken withered as the final vote count showed him losing.

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[Nickel]

Al Franken withered as the final vote count showed him losing.

Boy, you'll grasp at any straw no matter how thin now that your boy's been bounced back across the Potomac, huh?

[Ferretlover]

Indecision, Thumb Prints and Lizard People in the Minnesota Recount 20 Nov 2008 Brad Haynes reports on Senate races:

If someone has filled in the bubble next to Al Franken’s name for U.S. Senator, can we be sure that the voter intended to vote for Franken? What if that voter has also supplied a name in the space provided for a write-in candidate? What if that name is “Lizard People”?
These are the tough questions confronting elections officials in Minnesota as they hunker down for a manual recount of the 2.9 million ballots cast in the Senate race. After one day of recounting, covering 18% of ballots cast, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman’s lead has shrunk from 215 votes to 174. The Franken campaign also won a key legal challenge, forcing counties to turn over the names of absentee voters whose ballots were rejected. That may open up many more ballots to dispute, as the campaigns can now identify and argue for the inclusion of ballots that were unlawfully rejected.
Meanwhile, thousands of volunteers and hundreds of lawyers are challenging official decisions, ballot by ballot, waging weighty interpretative battles over voters’ messy scribbles – a few of which you can find here .
If a voter fills in the bubble for Coleman and then writes “NO” in capital letters next his name, should we take that as an intended vote for Coleman? Does a smudged thumb print count as a distinguishing mark, like a signature or Social Security number, which should invalidate the ballot? And then there are those excruciating calls: “Even though the voter filled in the bubble next to [Dean] Barkley’s name, a Franken representative said what appear to be eraser marks over Franken’s bubble indicated the voter intended to vote for Franken.” …

Who wrote in "Lizard People?"

[vision-master]

Cool link!

[threadbear]

I voted for him!

I didn't!

Hope he doesn't get Wellstoned. In Canada being "well stoned" means you've got your hands on some B.C. bud and you're flying high. If you're a Democrat senator in Minnesota it means you should avoid flying all together.

[Zardoz]

I heard yesterday, on NPR, I think, that there were something like a hundred votes separating them at the moment, with Franken behind.

Minnesota Senate race recount could get ugly

[AlexdeLarge]

I think I rather prefer "wither."

+1 A truly obnoxious fellow.

+2 He is a true arsehole.......regardless of your political stance.

[vision-master]

I think I rather prefer "wither."

+1 A truly obnoxious fellow.

+2 He is a true arsehole...regardless of your political stance

a Jewish arsehole. I kind of like his style..........