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I am a proud Minnesotan, but the news of Franken, "being called the winner" is very disheartening. It is a sad day here in Minnesota. I can't wait for this to continue as it should given this was not done to ensure all votes were counted. They only wanted to make sure all frankenstein votes were counted!

Been drinking too much beer, eh?

Dick Cheney
Bill O'Reilly
George Bush Sr.
George W. Bush
Michelle Bachmann

Those are idiots, dude. Obama=Change

Say it with me now, YES WE CAN.

Time for all good folks to stop rising to the O'Reilly, Hannity, Rove bait - this country is as divided as it was during the Civil War: families have been torn asunder, friends have parted, and there's no longer the social mixing there once was between the two sets. At least in the south...

And the Conservative talk show hosts get richer by the minute, churning out books, spewing out hate....as our country suffers from lack of focus on what really ails...

Palin has an illegitimate grandchild, whose paternal grandmother was just arrested for drug dealing; Cheney's got a lesbian daughter, married to a woman she has a baby with. Now, come on - what would O'Reilly be saying if these facts belonged to the Dems? And the Dems wouldn't mind a bit, were it not for the hypocrisy...

Now, that the liberals have finally learned to fight back, the GOP is apoplectic.

Let's get back to each having a turn, and having a little respect for each other, please. Otherwise, we're no better than the warring factions in Iraq. Why not take a deep breath and accept the other side for a change?

Isn't it a shame, the ends politicians will go to to gain power? Frankin has obviously won under vote counts by a board agreed to in court by both parties and their candidates. Now that those votes show an incumbent losing, they, the GOP, are raising Hell about an improper count. The court appointed board has certified Frankin as the winner. The Secretary of State will certainly sign the warrant, but obviously, the Governor has received his orders from GOP HQ'S and he won't sign. What's to go to court about? The court, unless the GOP pulls strings and gets a sympathetic judge, won't overturn the certified count of it's own board.

Brad Childress, Kevin McCale, now Al Franken, poor Minnesotans, it can't get any worse. Oh wait, President Barrack Hussein Obama in 15 days, YES IT CAN!

Newsmax is propaganda and has virtually no credibility FLYER! Stop with the propaganda Al Franken would justly!

Democrats are thieves. They want to rob elections to get into power.

All is so CORRUPTED THAT NOTHING TAKES ME FOR SURPRISE.
Obama, Blagojevich, and others around members of the CHICAGO CORRUPTED POLITICAL MACHINE , affiliated to the CROOKS AND THIEVES AT WALL STREET , and do not forget the 'cover-up club':- Pelosi, Reid, Cox, Dood, Soros, and other weeds.

So this is another indication of how down to the bowels of hell we are going into.

And all thanks to a bunch of COCOZOIDS, WACKADOOS, AND GOOFBALLS DEMOCRATS!

Oh!, my!,...what an adventure!

sincerely,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana

Even if more ballots are counted, they won't be the cherry-picked set the Coleman folks want counted. And thus Coleman won't be able to overcome the Franken lead.

THIS COMMENT IS WORTH REREADING, RYAN.... THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Ryan January 5th, 2009 7:33 pm ET

I love how republicans want to count all the votes now. Is there no end to their hypocrisy. Al wanted to count all the votes and Coleman tried to BLOCK him. They mutually decided on a set of votes that were legitimate and rejected the others. Now the Coleman has lost he wants to try to count the remaining 650. I'm still waiting for Coleman to concede like he said he would had he been in Al's position on the night of the election.

Truth? On Newsmax? LOL.

My favorite Newsmax ad on dating: "Forbidden attraction secrets the liberal media does NOT want you to know."

Hahaha. Liberals steal votes *and* thwart your plans for getting with the ladies. Such evil!

Not another dirty liberal! Our moral values are decaying in this country. This guy is just going to accelerate that process. What have we come to?

Wow flyer, nothing like using a credible news source!

I am a registered Democrat, but this guy is a schmuck from the word GO.
a MORON DEM leader doesnt do me any good.

Minnesotans are on BRAIN FREEZE.

There is no stealing. The candidates are not counting the votes.
All of you are on BRAIN FREEZE.

proud in minnesota here-the law was followed to the T. and now allwe have to do is get rid of pawlenty and replace him with a good for the people democrat. alot of happy people here in minnesota,you see rest of the country what you dont see is that there was a very strong third party candidate, and 90% of the people that voted for him would have voted for franken so really coleman got hammered in this election.....which he should have because he should be in jailwith most republicans that gave bush free reign to destroy this nation.

My mistake. You Libs don't want to know the truth.

Congratulation, Al Franken.... now enough already! I suspect the Repubs will not give up, however. They are used to stealing elections... .and I am sure they did the best they could do that this time! Just sayin'....

The recount is done. The winner is known. The loser needs to tell the winner congrats and move on. A better man would do this. But we have a bitter man so this will go on for a while longer.

To Mike from Syracuse – I am with you that all votes should be counted. You must admit Coleman has been very hypocritical in this campaign. When he was ahead, Coleman wanted the process stopped. When he is behind Coleman wants the process continued. Coleman agreed to one set of rules (only count the improperly rejected ballots where improperly rejected was agreed by everybody) and then has brought up 650 more ballots from a Coleman leaning district which not all sides agree on them being improperly rejected. If anyone's vote is still improperly rejected, that should be rectified. Absolutely. I hope you were this up in arms about Florida 2000.

Now that Franken is ahead HE is the one that wanted to stop counting.

If you really what to know how Franken won go to newsmax.com. It is by no means an honest election. You people that complain about stolen elections need to read this.

"Hey, what's that smelly thing stuck to the bottom of my shoe? Just another Democrat."

Never let it be said that conservatives are incapable of intelligent political discourse.

Well the dems in the senate are all a joke anyway.

The filibuster cabal is shrinking, and the desire for American progress is on the move.

"The efforts of Al Franken, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer to steal this election and seat Al Franken despite not having an election certificate are unprecedented," Duncan said in a statement. "I am confident that if the law is followed, Norm Coleman will be taking his rightful seat in the U.S. Senate."

Actually, there is precedent. In a 2000 Supreme Court Case known as Bush v. Gore. Funny how the Republicans think they have any right to complain about stolen elections...

Proud American (sic) – Not with democrats counting the ballots!

Now THAT'S how you steal an election!

Take note people. Count whatever votes you want until your side is ahead then call it for your guy. Done.

I love how people bring up Florida as some sort of justification for this. If the Florida 2000 election was stolen, how did Bush win Florida in 2004?

Has anyone seen Bozo? I'm looking for Bozo! Is he here at the circus?

Repubs can't even beat out a stand-up comic in an election. Now that's funny.

"Just send your dollar, to me, Charles L. Shaw Liverpool NY, if i can get enough laughs and dollars, I too can be a national leader….."

Chuck Shaw, formerly of Cazenovia and GE?

Hey Chuck, how's it going?

Message to Senator Franken,

If only Al Gore had stuck it out as well as you did sir the world would be a different place. I think if Al Gore could have forseen the damage wrought by W and his band of crooks I don't think he'd have given up so easily. Remembe rwhen you thought "It did not matter much who won in 2000" America?

Anyway I think Senator Franken, that you have learned a valuable lesson from W's theft of the 2000 election.

Franken once said of a fellow Harvard grad that was killed in a gay-bashing murder that he was "glad" the (expletive deleted) was murdered.

Check out all the homophobic skits on SNL for the last 30 years.

Guess who wrote them?

Former wrestler Franken has some "issues" to deal with.

Hasn't Minnesota had enough wrestlers in public office?

Sometimes having "any" democrat elected is not a good idea

Listen to the crybabies cry. The election is OVER and the best man finally won.

It's time for the republicans to get over the election, you guys lost now is the time to get on with fixing the broken economy.

After all, the republicans with their deregulation of the financial industry got us into this economic mess.

Hell has frozen over...Minnesota deserves Al Freaken...

The Democrats always accuse Republicans of cheating!

This proves that Democrats are still the World Champion cheaters!

It's over Coleman. Time to be a Big Boy and concede.

Typical Democrats-Lie,cheat ,steal-Law's were made to be broken !

IT"S ALL ABOUT GREED.

"Don't need him either" !

Congress Term Limits . . . 12 years, NO Retirement !

I IUST CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE WOULD PUT SOMEONE LIKE FRANKEN IN OFFICE SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN GOD!!! ALSO SO FAR LEFT !!!!! THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO ( HELL)

Senator Cornyn in the end will eat crow and have to welcome the newly elected junior senator Al Franken of Minnesota. We are all better off to be rid of another Bush lackey, Norm Coleman. Franken can be no worse a politician than another man who became President, Ronald Reagan.

Terry: "Hurry up and get there Mr. Franken. You will be joining the greatest collection of do-nothings and thieves (i.e.,Pork and Ear-Marks) that this planet has ever seen."

I guess you've had your head in the sand for the last eight years. More pork and earmarks in the last eight years than ever before.

No administration has stolen more from the planet than the departing Bush administration. They are the equivalent of "oxygen thieves" – stealing precious air from the rest of us.

uhh, Marc ... Ventura went to community college, Franken went to Harvard. Different playing field.

So Normy is going to sue?

republican Sen. Norm Coleman needs to concede

This IS NOT over yet! Stay tuned!!

@ Mark PDX.....I don't think I would call Franken a clown. He graduated from an ivy league university....did you?

Hey AL pay your tback taxes so Obama can give them to non working illegals!

Job well done, Senator Franken! Coleman needs to stop being a sore loser and should gracefully concede defeat - does anyone remember Alan Alda in "The West Wing?"

The Republican Party is dying off, so let the Democrats do their work and set this country back on the right path.

go to hell Al.

Congratulations Al!

The analogies to FL are stupid and wrong. First, the Dems designed the ballot, conducted the elections and counted the votes in Palm Beach and Broward counties–the counties of dispute. Second, it seems only Dems were incapable of voting correctly; otherwise, they would have to admit that Repubs voted wrong, too. Third, after all was said and done, the votes were counted by liberal newspapers and other through public access requests to ballots. Bush won in every case. Get informed, folks

Franken will get the job done,I cant wait till he gets on the Senate floor and cracks his first joke.Of course the republicans wont laugh since they were born without a sense of humor and less is a joke about drowning cats or bashing baby seals.

I love how republicans want to count all the votes now. Is there no end to their hypocrisy. Al wanted to count all the votes and Coleman tried to BLOCK him. They mutually decided on a set of votes that were legitimate and rejected the others. Now the Coleman has lost he wants to try to count the remaining 650. I'm still waiting for Coleman to concede like he said he would had he been in Al's position on the night of the election.

I think Franken is good enough, smart enough, and doggone it people like him.

Congrats AL

P.S. Franken is much smarter than Jesse.

For those of you posting on here not from Minnesota, you should not be so judgemental. Al Franken ran a marvelous campaign and was very professional at every corner. Norm Coleman on the other hand ran a disgraceful campaign that many people expected to see out of Franken. Instead of basing judgement on the past, you should judge both of these individuals on the actions they have taken throughout the campaign. True, Franken was a comedian, but he also knows there is a time and a place for humor, the Senate floor not being one of those. Coleman does not know these boundries and got what he had coming the past six years.

Notice to all Republicans you have 15 days to get out of Washington so the bright men and women that Americans sent there to do they job you were hired to do and failed. Stop whinning pack your bags and leave.

the cry baby will cry until they say he won
another stupid demo in washington

Poor Republicans, did they really think they could win an election? lmao

So

What did you expect. The Dems wanted some payback from the 2000 election and were able to steal the Minn. Senate election fair and square. When you can find ballets in the truck of cars and additional ballets materialize from nowhere you can be proud to say you can do it better than the Chicago Democratic political machine.

Hopefully, the folks from Minn. will wake up and realize that Franken should have kept his day job as a Left wing Fanatic and marginal comedian.

With the technology we have today it is ashame we have to go to such lengths to win elections.

I see tears,knashing of teeth and wailing among the republicans,and I love it.

Go Al!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to Minnesota for actually having a process and counting the votes, unlike Florida in 2000. I think Coleman is going to be hard-pressed to complain about what was done and will end up looking like a sore loser. Franken, thankfully, avoided Al Gore's mistakes (e.g. only asking for part of the vote to be recounted).

That said, clearly neither guy had a mandate and no matter what happens they should lead with humility and try to win over the voters they didn't get the first time.

I WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT IF PRESIDENT OBAMA IS GONNA
INCLUDE DISABLE PEOPLE THAT ARE DRAWING A SSD CHECK
IN THE STIMULUIS PACKAGE. DISABLE PEOPLE NEED STIMULIS PACKAGE TOO.

Give em hell Al!

franken will be good for the senate. he liked fistfights.
maybe robert byrd should be first.

...And THAT, Mr. Duncan is the problem: Republican's sense of entitlement to positions of leadership regardless of the will of the people or the political process!

Good-bye Mr. Cold Man (Coleman)

Coleman needs to be a man and own up to his short commings in this election so that America can move on. All a suit will do is slow the process but not get him the seat.

I thought the Repugs were going to steal this on. If they had only worked this hard in Fla 2000, we would be in a lot better shap today and a lot safer.

"Pull a Burris" - I love that! It can come to mean someone who shows up despite being shunned or told by a mega majority that they are not wanted. Of course, if Burris does not Pull a Burris tomorrow, then it is a moot point.

I seem to recall Mr. Coleman calling Mr. Franken a sore loser, or words to that effect, a few days after the election when Mr. Franken refused to concede based on Mr. Coleman's 215-vote lead. The honorable thing to do, Mr. Coleman said, was to accept defeat. Now that Mr. Franken has a 225-vote lead following a recount that the Minnesota Supreme Court could find no fault with, Mr. Coleman is concerned that hundreds of Minnesotan's votes may not have been counted. Looks like another one those lies and the lying liars who tell them.

Is that all Republicans do...whine? Whatever happened to states' rights. Minnesota certified Franken so he should be seated. Now, Illinois has NOT certified Barris so he should not be seated. Two different situations totally.

Republicans need to back off...we're really quite tired of hearing them whine.

....is that popping sound that of Bill O'Reilly's head exploding?

can't wait to see which one of the Repub senators jumps ships to give the Dems the 60 seat super-majority

Minnesota is one for two.
Lost to the Eagles
Won back the Wellstone seat.

The GOP needs to back off and let Franken in so the whole world can see what a bunch of Dumb Butts live in MN.

This is a joke! ha ha

repubs. sore loosers.

Congratulation!! At least Franken won by going through election. Burris is just taking advantage of situation created by corrupted governor (well.. Burris may be the highest bidder too.)

Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan lashed out at the ruling.

"The efforts of Al Franken, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer to steal this election and seat Al Franken despite not having an election certificate are unprecedented."

These kinds of scorched-earth statements need to be drastically reigned-in on both sides of the political spectrum. There is not one shred of evidence that there was any wrongdoing during this recount, and immediately jumping to the "nuclear option" of claiming the election was stolen is unacceptable for either the DNC or RNC Chairman to presume. These types of thoughtless comments only serve to undermine the public's faith in our election process, and a party chairman who would cavalierly make such a statement should be censured by his own party.

Not to mention the fact that in order to have "stolen" the election in the manner that Mike Duncan suggests, Franken's team would have needed the two Republicans on the recount committee to have broken the law just to get Franken elected. How plausible is that?

The notion of a "Senator Franken" sounds downright comical! How many body blows can the body politic endure from the flippant Left and still survive.

The ignorance of comments made here is hilarious. To make this an issue of republican/democrat corruption is to shoot yourself in the foot. The arguments swing both ways people. In 2000 is was cry babies v. thieves and in 2008 the roles are reversed. Oh how selective memories can be.

This is truly an all-time low for American politics. Franken is unapologetically anti-american and is not fit to be an American lawmaker. The people of Minnesota who voted for Franken should have all further voting rights taken away; they truly are oblivious to the danger that smug, smart alecky liberals such as Franken pose to this country.

Hey Tim....the third ring will be Caroline Kennedy. She will complete the three ring circus that Democrats are so proud of.

Hey Karl...who's Franklin? You don't even know the candidates name..as long as he hates conservatives...I'm sure you will be happy with him!! Enjoy it while it lasts.....in six months the country will despise liberals!!!!!

First Coleman goes to the Minn. Supreme Court to throw out the wrongfully rejected ballots. When he doesn't win he wants to add more?

Certified and Justified. Al Franken. Lets get to work.

To all the republiklans in Minnesota. HAahahahahahahahahaha. May you never hold another senate seat in Minnesota. Go Al.

Looks like the only way to get elected in Minnesota is to start your career out as a clown. Jesse Ventura, Al Franken, ...

Darth Vadik, CA: How about not painting all Republicans with the same brush in order to fit your agenda of calling them hypocrites? You omitted the fact that the the Republican gubernatorial candidate in WA state WON the initial count. Gregoire (the Democrat) wants a recount, and the Democrat WA state legislature gave it to her. The Republican (Rossi) WON that recount. Then Gregoire wants ANOTHER recount, and the Democrat legislature gives it to her again, and then she wins that recount. Rossi sues for a recount and he is denied.

The Democrat candidate gets two recounts when she wanted them.

The Republican candidate asks for 1 recount and is denied.

The Democrat candidate won 1 out of 3 counts.

The Republican candidate won 2 out of 3 counts.

And the Democrat ends up being governor.

MUCH different than Al Gore's case. And I, a Republican, believe that Al Gore had every right to a recount in such a close election. So don't be calling me a hypocrite if I say Rossi should have been WA governor. It's time for you put aside your partisan blinds and think intelligently.

It's like having two kids in the back seat on a long trip. They're irritating and keep asking "are we there yet?". The trip drags on and on until you finally have to pull the car over and spank them both. The world is watching. They're laughing too. Is there any reason at all that we can't have a uniform procedure for all 50 states? Voting is too important a matter to have different rules in different states. This happens every time and we come out looking like a banana republic.

WE ARE HEARING OF ANOTHER BUY OUT. ALSO MANY BALLOTS OF THE MILITARY , THEY DO NOT WANT TO COUNT.

LOOKS AS IF THE DEMOCRATS CAN NOT FIND ANY OTHER WAY TO GET ELECTED , BUT BUY , AND LIE . THIS IS REALLY GOING TO LOOK GOOD TO OTHER COUNTRIES , WE BRAG ABOUT FREE ELECTIONS . NOW IT HAS BECOME A TOTAL BIG MESS. LIES UPON LIES WE HAVE HEARD FOR 2 YEARS PLUS. ? HOW LONG ARE WE GOING TO HEAR SUCH . BARRACK AN ALL HIS FOREIGN DOLLARS . AND ALL HIS LIES , THEN HE GOT THE HOLLWOOD STARS , REID AN PELOSI , AYERS , ACORN , AHMADINEJAD CONVINCED .

THIS IS A SAD COMING YEARS FOR AMERICA, * RIGHT THEY ARE . CHANGE , WHO IS EVER GOING TO BELIVE IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM , IT IS GOING CRUPT . MISSOURI HAS BEEN CORRUPT FOR YEARS, WITH THE DC MACHINE, NECK AND NECK WITH CHICAGO POLITICS.

WRIGHT ?

Great; just what we need; another comedian in politics.

Congratulations to ACORN and the unions for their shining example of a fair election. Coleman kinda reminds me of Al Gore and his ilk (that dominate this board) in 2000. Hopefully Coleman will never let up no matter how long it takes, just like a democrat.

I forgot to mention that they are using one of the 7 deadly sins. "GREED".

Having Franken in the senate should at least make viewing C-SPAN2 a little more lively!

I thought that the "IDIOTS" Republicans wanted to stop the count the other day? Now they want to file a lawsuit...Get over it already the PEOPLE said NO to another Republican. Can't they see that we "The People" are fed up with their LIES? Congress needs to get their arse to work and get this country out of the mess that Bush and Cheney created...And why are the banks not using the BILLIONS that "WE THE TAX PAYORS" gave them to ease the credit crunch? Oh I forgot the CEO got their big bonus's first..Maybe no more money to give to the PEOPLE. Why are the banks not being asked on what they are doing with the money...Oh once again I remember, Bush and Cheney are still in office.

You go Al! Good Luck!

Minnesota, you deserve Al Franken. You can have him.

You have to hand it to the Republican hypocrisy, it knows no ends. The Republicans were so up and arms about Gore wanting to sue that they had the Supreme Court appoint Bush, but when they lose, they love to sue...

..dont believe me? check it out with Norm Coleman, and a Republican governer of Washington (state) candidate a couple years ago, etc etc etc.

I cant wait for Bill O'cry-me-a-river-lly to say: "Today President Barack Obama welcomed Minesotta Senator Al Franken to the White House...."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Hey Dems, what's wrong with counting ALL the votes? Isn't that what you always preach. There are over 600 rejected ballots that haven't been counted. I guess you count all the votes until you get ahead, then stop. Hey, what's that smelly thing stuck to the bottom of my shoe? Just another Democrat.

Hurry up and get there Mr. Franken. You will be joining the greatest collection of do-nothings and thieves (i.e.,Pork and Ear-Marks) that this planet has ever seen.

There's no way a runoff would have ever taken place in Minnesota. That wasn't an option because the Georgia runoff demonstrated that without Obama on the ballot, the Democrats do NOT benefit from his coattails.

Think about this one, folks.... if this election had been called on election night, Coleman would have won. Only after the ballots had been re-counted and rejected ballots had been scrutinized a second time did Minnesota get a true count. Makes you wonder about those close elections a little bit, doesn't it????

yea!!!! go al!!!

Al "Count Every Vote" Franken sure was opposed to disenfranchising the voters, at least the voters who were voting for him it appears. Let everyone have their say. Count the 650 ballots.

I am very annoyed that my undistinguished Senator Cornyn can think of nothing to do, no problem to work on, and no issue to think about except telling the state and people of Minnesota and the courts who should be the Junior Senator from Minnesora.

Unlike the presidential election of 2000, in this case, the majority rules. Way to go Big Al! Give my regards to Cornyn.

Proof positive that the voters of Minnesota are a complete joke. Illinois voters are corrupt, New York voters don't mind a carpet-bagger...

Good for Al, he did not let Coleman steal his seat. You just cant be nice with Republican politicians, you know what they say, "you give them an inch, they will take a mile."

Not this time.

Time for Franken to take Office and stop the Bickering. We have a State that deserves to be represented, especially now in this Economic Crisis. Franken cares about the People he represents.

The Burris and the Franken rings are now open for your viewing enjoyment. We are busy deciding on which of the other acts we will place front and center in ring number 3.

Whatever happened to the days when people conceded defeat? Poor sportsmanship and overwhelming lust for power I guess...

So back to American problems that affect the jobless, homeless, so he won and lets move on now, America is bleeding from 8 years of GOP schemes.

"Mommy! He took my seat! Mommy!" Wow, what a Republican joke of a man. Stop wasting the public's money. The country must solidify and move on to a better future. Both candidates agreed to the process. The process fanned out and Franklin won. Point. Blank. Period!

Congratulations Al, way to stick it out!

Al Franken, a US Senator. His best joke to date.

But I would pull a Burris (his name should be attached to this) and show up to the Senate

Just send your dollar, to me, Charles L. Shaw Liverpool NY, if i can get enough laughs and dollars, I too can be a national leader.....

OMG, this is the election that never ends. Do we need to bring in the UN?

I have an idea. Have a new election. My guess is that NEITHER of them will win after they've alienated all the voters with this endless bickering.

Let's quit recounting and give the man his just win. I'm for that !