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  1. NancyPelosi

    NancyPelosi said, 4 months ago

    Liberals love Franken because he represents their own hypocritical, nasty, moronic views and agenda.

  2. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    try againi … they just counted ALL the votes and then recounted and recounted all in view of coleman’s people too

    ain’t got nothing to do with lawyers … it’s the votes, stupid

  3. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    It was ALL lawyers…arguing about what votes were valid. They should have had a “redo” with strict controls on “absentee” votes. The only legitimate absentees are overseas personnel otherwise properly registered.

  4. Sandor_at_the_Zoo

    Sandor_at_the_Zoo said, 4 months ago

    Coleman won first, Franken won second. That’s still a tie.

  5. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 4 months ago

    Sally Field, he’s not.

  6. nlnap19

    nlnap19Genius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Concerned_Human: excellent point. It is amazing that we cannot seem to come up with a simple, common voting method easily tabulated by a machine.

  7. lalas

    lalas said, 4 months ago

    Gee, EVERY board that oversaw the election recount/appeal voted UNANIMOUSLY in favor of the count as it currently stands. You knee-jerk idiots have NO IDEA how the recount/appeals went down. You’re just partisan hacks.

    Coleman’s final argument was that they needed to count PROPERLY rejected absentee ballots. Ballots that were rejected for lack of a signature and other infractions that are required by law. Yet Coleman wanted them counted because they were close enough. The ones that Franken wanted counted (successfully) were IMPROPERLY rejected ballots. Ones that were rejected erroneously.

    Absentee voting is a privilege in MN. The Supreme Court saw it as such and said “if you mess it up, too bad. Next time, show up in a voting booth.”

    Are there problems in the system? Duh!
    Are they going to fix those problems? Yes, duh!
    Would it have been fair to just count MORE ballots that didn’t deserve to be counted so Norm the weasel could win? NO, duh!

  8. Gladius

    Gladius said, 4 months ago

    lalas,
    While I agree that the counting has been thoroughly reviewed you are not helping the partisan hack issue by referring to Coleman as a weasel. He only lost by a few hundred votes which made him a valid contender.

  9. lalas

    lalas said, 4 months ago

    Sure he was a valid contender in the recount, but he’s a weasel for a 100,000 other reasons. Mainly the $100,000 his sugar daddy funneled to him via his wife, among the countless other gifts that Kazeminy gives him.

    As much as I loathe Norm, the appeals process is there for a reason and is fair. I would have expected Franken to do the same. My one complaint is that Norm carried it so far on such a tragically weak case. I would propose that the state address the issue of us having NOT been represented for 6 months.

    Oh did I mention the $9B that vanished in Iraq that he refused to investigate. Pretty sure I’ve mentioned that.

  10. spelvin2002

    spelvin2002Genius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Sandorat_theZoo said, about 13 hours ago

    Coleman won first, Franken won second. That’s still a tie.

    Still, two out of three makes him the winner.

  11. Tigger

    TiggerGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Just like the Conservative USSC loved Bush.

    Disclaimer: This is pure Sarcasm! Had Gore won Tennessee, his ‘Home State’, he would have been President. Do the math yourself. Subtract 11 Electoral Votes (Tennessee) from Bush and add to Gore, Gore is President.

  12. deadheadzan

    deadheadzanGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Franken won fair and square and Minnesota has only had to wait 8 months for representation of 2 Senators for the state.

  13. PUPPYSAURUS

    PUPPYSAURUSGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    No mandate here. Franken, don’t quit your day job. Which was what , exactly?

  14. Copperdomebodhi

    Copperdomebodhi said, 4 months ago

    When Coleman was up by 200-some on election night, he said Franken should concede out of common decency. Once Franken was up by 300-some, Coleman was talking about taking his case to the Supreme Court.

    Before the election, Republicans ranted about ACORN and voter fraud. They argued anything irregular about a vote should be grounds for prosecution. After the election, Coleman argued that blatantly illegal votes should be counted.

    The judges should have told him he couldn’t have it both ways. Instead, they let him have it almost anyway he wanted. They let him exclude, then include, and then exclude a particular group of ballots. Even with an all-conservative, all-Republican-appointee panel of judges, Coleman couldn’t find more legal votes.

    Al Franken won because more people voted for him, period.

  15. nlnap19

    nlnap19Genius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Check out this addr:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124640687950076679.html

    The article itself is biased towards Coleman but read thru the 235 comments and you will get a fair representation of both sides of this issue.

  16. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    235 comments? can’t be bothered…Like MJ is still dead. Its over…nothing to see here…move along.