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I like how so many people are accusing Norm Coleman of trying to steal the election.

Coleman has been ahead ever since votes have started coming in. If Franken somehow rearranges a 500-vote loss into a 100-vote victory, will you resist continuing the use of the word "stolen"?

Don't mind me. Just pointing out the inconsistencies in some of your arguments.

I like how so many people are accusing Norm Coleman of trying to steal the election.

Coleman has been ahead ever since votes have started coming in. If Franken somehow rearranges a 500-vote loss into a 100-vote victory, will you resist continuing the use of the word "stolen"?

Don't mind me. Just pointing out the inconsistencies in some of your arguments.

Wow, this Earl guy here is really messed up. Its pretty scary knowing that there are people like that out here.
I think the zoo cage might be a good place to start. That, and some heavy drugs.

Coleman stove leaves the voters cold. Franken will win because "he's good enough. He's smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like him!"

Coleman has read his Supreme Court cases! Remember that Bush's claim of victory was instrumental in the circular reasoning behind stopping the recount in Florida, the continuation of which would have produced irremediable harm to "the winner."

@xargaw

Agreed that the hand recount is best, but didn't the WA '04 governor race only do the hand recount for the Seattle area? Seems like if they missed the votes of those outside the emerald city they didn't care.

MN could be the same - I think each precinct gets to choose whether to recount by machine or by hand. Lets hope they all do a hand recount the first time around and not repeat that WA mess.

Beware of ACORN shenanigans. That organization holds that the ends justify the means. Franken undoubtedly wants to benefit from ACORN's expertise just like Obama. I'm sure democracy will operate much better when Obama's Civilian Army (aka Gestapo) will watch over us citizens.

Yep, he's a Republican.

Coleman seems to think that if he repeats something enough times in a loud voice, he'll make it TRUE.

Good luck on the recount Al. Bye bye coleman we don't want you.

Please tell me that they at least won't be trying to ascertain the will of the voters with dimpled and hanging chads.....

Has anyone noticed when the race is close the Dems miraculously find additional ballots in the recount and keep recounting until the winner is a Dem? Case in point..Look at the Washington state gov race in 04. Dems sued for a recount and after the 3rd try finally got the victory when previously uncounted ballots magically appeared and gave the victory to the Dem. All the legal challenges in the 2000 presidential race requiring 3 recounts that didn't get the result the Dems wanted. Recounts by 2 newspapers (I believe 1 was the Miami paper) long after the race proved Bush in fact did win. If votes are being missed in the counting then criminal charges need to be filed for fixing a race. I'm all for a recount if the race is close, but 1 recount is all that should be required. Anymore than 1 and it looks suspicious especially when 1 party is forcing recounts and court battles. Just an observation.

It's not that the people from Minnesota are stupid good sir, it's that we have no better candidate to replace Norm with, need to go with the lesser of two evils.

But thank you for immediately jumping to the conclusion that because we vote for someone, automatically makes us dumb.

Why restrict ourselves to just one recount? Florida's recount in 2000 was just the beginning.

Coleman, go back to sleep.

The Coleman camp are talking out of their behinds again. Their opportunistic candidate hooked up with the Bush crowd when the going looked good there, and now that it doesn't, the slimy little chameleon has tried to portay himself as an independent moderate. Within a year of occupying the late great Paul Wellstone's seat, he even had the guts and horribly poor taste to proclaim himself a 99% better Senator than Wellstone was. Just another heartless Republican. Bye, bye, Norm-we don't want you anymore. Go spend your retirement on Bush's ranch where you belong!

I'm pullin for Franken!!!

Coleman, you need to give up. The fix is in. I guarantee you two things. CNN will not post this and you will lose. If they can’t fix it during the recount for you to lose, they will take care of it in the courts or the Senate. When will you learn, you can’t play by the rules.

Norm you need to take some time to find a new place to live. Hint it will not be in the house of a sugardaddy in Washington DC. It will be somewhere in Minnesota. BTW Coleman you suck!

I honestly think they should consider re-doing the election without any third parties.

But in all honesty, I think after a recount Frank will prevail.

I too will be happy once the recount has been done. Mark Ritchie is a good Secretary of State. Al got my vote.

Just like a republican if they can't win it fair they steal it.

Those Republicans sure know how to steal elections.

This coming from Coleman, who is about to be indicted for bribery to the tune of $75,000 for his wife, undisclosed vacations and clothing from lobbyists, and abuse of power. He has frequently been cited as one of the top ten most corrupt national leaders. What is wrong with the people of Minnesota? How did Bachmann win? How is this guy even close? Anyone else starting to suspect there was a little Coleman-issued foul play with Wellstone in 2002? Wellstone was clobbering Coleman until tragic events occurred, and Coleman walks into office in the waning days of the election before Wellstone's campaign had a chance to name a replacement. Something stinks with this guy. He's changed political parties like 3 times. Does he stand for ANYTHING?

"Lies and the lying liars who tell them",go little boy Al,you just keep going.This will work out in your favour.

Are all you people serious? You actually WANT to elect a raving lunatic like Al Franken to the United States Senate? Just because he's NOT the Republican candidate? Jeez, I had thought that the US had made history when they elected Obama, but now I'm beginning to feel that if Mickey Mouse was on the ballot against a republican he would have won...

Tues night Norm told Al to concede, insinuating that allowing a recount was tantamount to questioning the MN election workers who in his veiw then, were beyond reproach. Now that some corrections have been made, which happens in every race in every election, he has changed his tune. What is it Norm? Do you trust the MN system or not? Does he forget that even though he has the most votes, the majority of Minnesotans did not vote for him thanks to a strong 3rd party candidate? Shouldn't his first concern be that every vote counts? Isn't that what freedom and liberty is all about? I expect he will come out the winner in the end but wouldn't it be sweet if Al pulled this elelction off now that Norm has twice declared himself the winner and disparaged the election and counting process in a state known for its fairness. Just shut up Norm and let the law of the state you say you care so much about play out and live with whatever the results are. Take a lesson from McCain and act like an adult.

Typical Democrats...constant complaining. If things don't go in their favor, it's a conspiracy. But if things go against the Republicans, it's their own doing. That's all it is with Democrats, is all finger-pointing and placing blame and taking zero accountability on themselves. Sad.

Why is it whenever an election is this close Democrats always think they won? They always claim there are these unseen "mystery" votes that will appear. Could it be that if Republicans don't watch them every step of the way these votes always do "appear".
You know if Franken was 200 votes ahead they would have sworn him in already.

Lots of irregularity in the precincts that Al is finding votes in. Appears that lots of folks voted for Franken and not BO. HMMMM. Very interesting. But hey, you dems have never claimed to be ethical.

Coleman was just trying to save us taxpayers the money it is going to cost to do the recount. Franken is just trying to figure out who will let him perform fraud and add some votes for the win. 77% of Democrats believe that if there is voter fraud it would be a democrat performing it.

wth is wrong with all of you, saying one or the other should just give up? both candidates have worked hard and long for an oppurtunity to represent Minnesota. Its their right and the right of Minnesotans to have a recount. go blow on an exhaust pipe. you people make me sick

I think they're both losers, but state law is state law. Does Coleman think he's above the law as he's attempts to circumvent it? Let the process work, you dirtbag.

57% voted against this incumbent. Seems like the voter are rejecting Mr. Coleman.

Are people in Minnesota so stupid they want AL FRANKEN to represent them? Can we think about that for a minute? That's like putting Bill O'Reilly in the senate, people that will make a mockery of the government and be useless in solving problems. COME ON!

Wow... I love how the Republicans always try to play themselves as the victims of the "liberal media". FOX News spews enough hatred and ignorance to make up for any alleged bias by the other networks.

YES WE DID!

By the end of this, we'll be hearing that the winner is "me, Al Franken." I think Al speaks for the Everyman, and I'm tired of Republican blowhards always trying to sue their way into office.

MR. COLEMAN, DON'T TRY TO STEAL MY VOTE.

He can declare himself the winner all he wants...

and I can declare myself queen of the world. Doesn't make it true.

Anybody who has ever been part of a recount knows that some ballots that a machine reads as undervote actually have valid votes under the counting standard.

When a race is this close, it's important to have a full and complete hand count to determine who won. Of course, just as in motor sports or baseball, when you are in the lead, you want the rest of the race called off to avoid the possibility that you actually might lose.

The Republicans are jumping the gun again.

And I'm not Al Franken

Al Freakin is an idiot, like all the good little marxists that voted for him.
Al Freakin, and the magic negro, and all the rest of the democratic marxists, should get jobs that they're uniquely qualified for, namely
cleaning animal cages, and toilets in the zoo of their choice.

Norms gotta go. He's gotta go.

Coleman should just "shut up" and let the process proceed. The more he whines about the whole thing the more people hope he loses. Can we just have some peace and quiet for a while now that the awful Coleman and Franken ads have finally stopped running? Too bad Barkley didn't win. He's no genius but he's a decent guy who would do a good job.

Awww, poor Senator Coleman...sounds like he's facing a "vast left-wing conspiracy". "unexplained discrepancies in reporting" pfft.

Al Franken was once a B-list comedian, but as a Senator he'd be a real joke. I know nothing about this guy Coleman, but he has to better that clown Franken.

There are more than 10,000 undervotes left to count/examine. This is even before any recount (inevitable). It is asinine to claim victory with 200 votes with either one of these conditions. It would be equally moronic if Franken tried to call it for himself.

Good luck Mr. Franken. President Obama needs you right now and I dearly hope you win. Enough with the Republican already. Go away!

I don't get it. Does the Coleman campaign think that if they ignore the recount process it will go away?

The recount is the law Norm!! Are you sweating it that your voter suppression efforts may not be enough? Go home with Sarah, John and your hero George!

Let's face it Norm....you lost the race...you're trying to pull a Florida here, cheating you way to the election and trying to deny a recount which will prove it...fall on your sword and go get a job with the rich Iranian who gives you all that illegal dough....I feel sorry for politicians like you.

Gee Norm, what happened? If Franken was supposedly so wrong for Minnesota, why is there going to be a state ordered recount?

Wow, let's declare victory without the mandated recount...geez, I think I've heard this story before.

Yet another feeble attempt by Sen. Bush boy to play politics and look foolish. Normy, you may very well lose and MN will be better off because of it.

just a matter of who did tipped the scales less if you catch my drift

That's the lowest gap I have seen since this started a week ago.

Let's count the votes before we jump to conclusions

Norm keeps forgetting his vote count went up by several hundred during the canvasing too. Franken's just went up a bit more.

I live in Washington State. We went through this in '04 in our Governor's race. The first two machine counts gave a slim lead to the Republican. A complete hand count gave the race to the Democrat. Only a complete hand count can demonstrate accuracy in a close race. Take the necessary time, count by hand and find out who really won, whoever that might be. The integrity of the election is most important. Machine scanners notoriously error as happened in the pre-election testing in Minnesota. A hand count will get it right. Colemen needs to chill and let democracy work.

Norm and his campaign team...... just ridiculous!!