All eyes on Minnesota's US Senate seat recount

[Terri]

By BRIAN BAKST and PATRICK CONDON
Associated Press
November 19, 2008

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The largest-ever recount in Minnesota history has more than just voters in the state biting their nails.

An army of election workers was to begin a statewide recount Wednesday of more than 2.9 million ballots to determine a winner between Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken.

Minnesota's race looms large in the broader Washington, D.C., power struggle. Depending on another undecided contest in Georgia, the Minnesota outcome could determine if Democrats attain a 60-seat majority that would enable them to overcome Republican filibusters.

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[jaktar7]

I have a nauseous feeling that the far left is going to steal this one. Why Minnesotans even made the election this close is beyond me. Al Franken is an extreme liberal who believes in all the wrong things. He is so stupid that he can't walk and chew gum at the same time. You might just as well put a chimpanzee in that seat. Going even that that far is being overly generous to Franken. If talks like an idiot and walks like an idiot, then it must be an idiot.

[thomas]

"Separately, the Franken campaign has sued to obtain the names of voters with invalidated absentee ballots. A hearing in that case was scheduled for Wednesday." Voters names should be private and not revealed to either party and if you're too stupid to follow a few simple instructions when filling out your forms then you don't need to vote anyway. Why isn't the National and State GOP's pooling money and hiring the best attorneys to fight this nonsense? Are we gonna let that pig Frankin and his democratic cohorts steal another race?
The Old Chief

[cltvcoyote]

With all of the finding of "lost ballots" and "ballots supposedly left in the back seat" and then "mistaken absentee ballots", I think that there should just be a total recall of that portion of the ballot and they should have a NEW, closely watched election just for that particular candidacy. There is just way too much of a cloud over any legitimacy of that election, put out there by Franken himself and promoted solely by him also. At least No. Carolina has it right in a re-do.

What total bunk, IF I were the Secretary of State there, I would throw out that whole portion and do a re-over. No question, no stopping, just circle GO and start a new election of that post.

Claudia
Reno, NV

[lranders]

Why are we conservatives even concerned, give me a break, I am sure Acorn has had plenty of time to find a couple of car-loads of newly discovered ballots to count.

The Acorn thing went away as fast as McCain did - the Republican Party is a wait-and-see appeasers, we need some pit-bulls counting those stupid ballots, instead we sit back and 'trust' Acorn and Democrats.

What a farce!!

How to get this Republican Committee turned aroung is beyond me. The leaders are just like Democrats, they get in a position, start getting good money, and stop working. NOW that is a welfare program that needs stopped!!!!!!!!
How?????????