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| Franken Certified as Minnesota Senate Race Winner, But Lawsuit Looms |
| 2009-01-06 |
 A Minnesota board has certified election results showing Democrat Al Franken has won the U.S. Senate recount -- by 225 votes. But that doesn't mean the former Saturday Night Live comedian's race against his Republican opponent, incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman, is over. Fox News has learned that Senate Democratic leaders will try to seat Franken on Tuesday, but a legal challenge probably will keep the race in limbo. Franken aides say the Democrat has no plans to travel to Washington yet. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 Franken getting more than a dozen votes would have been a disappointment. Like Obama, evidently Minnesotans think pretty highly of him. Be careful what you'ze ask for. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-01-06 20:56 |
| #12 Minnesota certified as election loser. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-01-06 20:25 |
| #11 Interesting historical note. Gore never believed for a second that he had won in Florida in 2000. The lawsuits and endless recounts were intended to prevent the Florida vote from being certified. If it hadn't been certified by the time the electoral college met to vote, Gore would have won the electoral vote, and thus the presidency. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2009-01-06 16:05 |
| #10 And thanks to the Free Market system they continue to self-regulate themselves by annually replacing faded Gore and Kerry bumper stickers so that the DMV does not, as with driver's ed vehicles, have to put a cone on top of their vehicle to warn of additional driving hazards. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-01-06 15:41 |
| #9 It seems Skidmark misread the propaganda he was supposed to post. 2004 was beyond the level of error. The only rcount was in Washington State where the Democrats kept counting until they got the result they wished. In 2000, the same was attempted in Florida, but the Supreme Court of the USA stopped that cheating attempt to recount until the desired results were obtained by the Democrat criminals. Later independent audits showed that Bush did win that election legitimately. It is only the mentally ill who continue this fight 8 years later. |
| Posted by: Lagom 2009-01-06 10:27 |
| #8 Skidmark, don't you mean 2000? |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-01-06 09:57 |
| #7 Maybe someone should have gone to jail for that one too. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2009-01-06 09:51 |
| #6 Why's that BJ? Wasn't counting the trick that gave us Bush in '04? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2009-01-06 08:21 |
| #5 Why's that BJ? Wasn't counting the trick that gave us Bush in '04? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2009-01-06 08:20 |
| #4 They kept counting until Franken won. Someone needs to go to jail over this one. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2009-01-06 08:07 |
| #3 Franken IS certifiable. :) I suppose somebody has to replace Teddy as chief buffoon in the Senate. |
| Posted by: Minister of funny walks 2009-01-06 07:03 |
| #2 Why? It wasn't a problem with the Washington State Governors race of 04. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-01-06 03:38 |
| #1 They just need to clean up that little issue of having more ballots than voters. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-01-06 02:06 |