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oh and Gov Gregoire of Washington came back just this last election cycle and beat Rossi w/out any "issues", so the people of WA spoke.

Washington Gov's race sounds similar to the crooked 2000 election in Florida. Both parties are guilty of election spin and posturing.

Ennis, George W. did the same thing with his 04 election. I love how anti-Democrats think Republicans are angels and Democrats are worthless. Take a look around and most everything that sucks right now is the result of corrupt capitalist greed stemming from corporate butt-buddies in the GOP. Al Franken is the type of person this country needs. Add Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to the mix and we would be on the road to doing what is right for once. Who cares what they do for a living, they have better brains than most of the politicians running the country now. By blaming Franken for the recounts, you're only making yourselves look stupid. Clearly there is enough dissatisfaction in Minnesota with Coleman to make it this close. I hope Al Franken wins!

MinnMickey,

Florida law required the same sort of hand count the law in Minnesota requires, a hand count where the intent of the voters should be taken into account. The Florida Supreme court ruled under Florida law that a hand recount be completed.

In the case of Florida, the stakes were so high for the Republicans they were willing to have the hand recount stopped and the 2000 election stolen by five Bush-loving Justices on the United States Supreme Court. Three of those Justices remain on the court with two additional "conservatives" taking the places of the dead and retired two. Four of the five are religiously motivated.

Just be thankful that Minnesota can't give the Presidency to the Republicans; if it could, you would see the willingness of the Republicans to steal this election in full view of the world. Jeb Bush helped the Republican 2000 theft in Florida, but was his help even necessary with a majority of the Supreme Court corrupt?

A Florida Citizen

Ennis – care to give a link to any data supporting your claim that more votes were cast than there were voters in Seattle in the 2004 governor's election? Sounds like some mighty sour grapes that 'ole Dino has been beaten twice by a woman.
Signed,
a Seattle resident, who (just like everyone else) only cast one vote

If you beleive that counting votes is a waste of money, you are without doubt, unpatriotic, and un-American. Perhaps you would like a system where votes are never counted. I'm sure there are such places awaiting your idiocy and happy to have you. Don't like democracy? Get out of my country!

I don't think these Repubs would be howling over tax money if their man was 200 down.... OH,NO... they would be screaming for a recount and shouting voter fraud.... *grin* strange how it is with the GOP..... there is one set of rules for them... and quite another for everyone else! *LOL*

Hey Normal,
I don't think Larry is necessarily a Right-Winger, nor is it at all apparent he doesn't know anything about the situation.
I am a democrat, who voted for Obama, and I think Al Franken is a raving lunatic who doesn't belong anywhere near the Senate. Any honest voter realizes that, Democrat or Republican. THAT'S why he bothered commenting...

Wow, there some incredibly uninformed people commenting on this. Does everyone realize that this recount is required under law? There is a 200 vote difference...we aren't talking about thousands of votes. I guess Begich should have dropped out against Stevens in Alaska too before all the votes were counted.

What's the matter, Larry?

Are you afraid if they count all the votes, Al Franken will win?

Larry...the state, by law, is required to have a recount. If you were down by 200 votes, would you call off a recount...I doubt it. If the incumbent was such a great candidate, don't you think it would have been a landslide in his favor? You seem like a right winger who knows little or nothing about this situation...why even bother commenting?

Nice AL.... blow all the tax money you can...
Man up and let it go.

Like Al Franken but I think he's lost this one.

AMEN LARRY

Keep working at it Al because if you cut it short, next time it will be the board that does that and eventually the people will not decided but a Government like China.

May every vote be counted!! Minnesota, be an example to the rest of the country. Count the votes. 1500 challenged ballots and an incumbent winner by 200?

Oh, for the love of GOD! For the last time, neither the Franken campaign nor Al Franken caused the recount! State law mandates a hand recount if the difference between two candidates is less than .5%. The difference on Election Night was 215 votes, much less than .5%! The goal of the recount is to determine that every vote cast was properly counted. If Al Franken had come out 215 votes ahead on Election Night, Republicans would've raised bloody hell! Let's just remember that this is a legally required procedure, not Al Franken's attempt to steal the Election.

To all you people criticizing Al for running because he was a comedian, have you ever heard Al talk about the issues?

You know he is a Harvard grad, right?

Who the heck was Norm Coleman? He snuck into office after Paul Wellstone died tragically in 2002, using the "terrorist propaganda Bush crap."

His (Norm) flip-flopping butt does not deserve to be in the seat Paul Wellstone once occupied.

Keep fighting Al!

Commenter Larry,
The best you can do is meaningless sloganeering against Al Franken? Al Franken isn't "putting everybody" through anything anymore than Norm Coleman is. The recount, along with an actual look for voter intent, was triggered by Minnesota state law, not by any candidate. This isn't Florida where Republicans did everything they could to stop ballots from being counted. Its Minnesota where the law requires the recount and voters are put first.

AF deserve this seat because all we donnot need now is the republican guy like Coleman who made the state of Minnesota to be the last state in unemployment or in other word the highest in unemployment.RUPs just RIP for now.

People, people! We are ALL Americans who want the best for our country. Sometimes it is "our" party "in power," sometimes it's not.

Can we all just "bury the hatchet" and move forward. If this particular "forward" turns out to be good — GREAT! If not, we'll change course AGAIN — as we have so many, many times before.

WE ARE AMERICA — THE SHINING CITY ON THE HILL!!!!!!

Happy Holidays to ALL my fellow Americans, of whatever polictical party affiliation!!

AL Franken says; Gosh darn it people will elect me because they like me. NOT!

Al,you as a candidate are not worth the trouble and the tax payers expense you keep putting everybody in your state through,give up!!

Can you say do-over??!?!?! Any ballots are now hopelessly tainted and would be dragged out in court ad nauseum. Just do the runoff and be done with it!

Let's hope this doesn't wind up being like the governor's race of
2004 in Washington State where new ballots mysteriously appeared
out of nowhere after two recounts. The result was a reversal of the
winner chosen on election day. The loser became the winner by
counting more votes in Seattle than there were registered voters!
A motion to redo the election without the votes of the dead, the
illegal aliens, and those convicted of felonies. But the legislature,
dominated by the loser's party, refused to call for another election.
These partisan Democrats figured it was better to win a crooked
election than to lose an honest one. So now Washington has a
dubious governor who stole her way into office.

Wanna bet the same thing won't happen in Minnesota today?

I hope Franken wins but my fear is while the people of Minnesota helped pick the best future President that they did not pick the right Senator.

Too bad there won't be an honest broker like Jesse Jackson, Jr to make sure these "honest" brokers stay honest.

Franken is a joke. He should have quit weeks ago.

This still isn't done? Can't they put in a new rule that if they can't figure out how to count within 30 days of the election, that the state should just forfeit their house or senate seat until the next election elections are held?

Like i've stated before,this contest will probably take long enough that the winner can be declared in time for the 2010 run offs.Get on with it.

Goodness, a complementary side / freak show to the Illinois coruption problems, what a circus 2008/2009 has turned into, either way Minnesota will be an interesting/weird choice

It still is a shame that all the errors, the disappeared ballots and the conterversary all came from the surrounding counties of Minneapolis, heavily heavily republican.