given the two candidates in question, having neither in office is the best option.

Yes but, Franken would be more amusing.

When is VH1 going to pick this up for a reality series?

Norm Coleman got his whining training directly from Master Rush

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what is the longest time that a contested election went unresolved?

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christ, the NH recount lasted until they had a special election almost a year later?
so MINN, you have a LONG way to go to win the most farked up election record

namatad: christ, the NH recount lasted until they had a special election almost a year later?
so MINN, you have a LONG way to go to win the most farked up election record

This is what should happen. Minnesota should have another election.

mikemoto: This is what should happen. Minnesota should have another election.

Why? There is a clear winner. What is your imaginary threshold by which voters should be forced to vote again for the same candidate for which they have already voted?

to be fair, Amy is doing an excellent job...

MorningBreath: given the two candidates in question, having neither in office is the best option.

Not if you're Amy Klobuchar, who now has twice the workload.

mikemoto: namatad: christ, the NH recount lasted until they had a special election almost a year later?
so MINN, you have a LONG way to go to win the most farked up election record

This is what should happen. Minnesota should have another election.

No. We count this one. Just because Coleman's behind doesn't mean he can obfuscate the results and then unilaterally declare the decision unreachable through methods entirely of his own devising.

I can just imagine the ads when he's up for re-election:

TV: Senator Al Franken didn't even bother to show up and work for the first four months of his term! Vote for the Republican candidate and throw this lazy bum out!

Idiot: I ain't electin' nobody to not do their job in Warshington! I'm voting against that lazy bum! Thank you for telling the truth about Franken, Republicans! USA! USA! USA!

If my guy lost I'd want another election too.
But at least I'm honest enough to admit my cynical reasoning.

Disappointing, but not surprising. Doesn't change the fact that Franken won the elections and will be seated; it will just happen in April rather than now.

I say we let the governor of Minnesota appoint someone with an interest in perjury. You know how well that works out.

bubbaprog: Why? There is a clear winner.

Yes, clearly there is no controversy here.

Actually, I would agree with you if it were any of my business.

gilgigamesh: If my guy lost I'd want another election too.
But at least I'm honest enough to admit my cynical reasoning.

This, except I'd feel pretty bad about making the state deficit even bigger by forcing the expense of yet another election.

/absentee ballot for Franken...

MorningBreath: given the two candidates in question, having neither in office is the best option.

this.

I don't suppose you could really butcher the two of them into enough sizable chunks for a proper tribute to the Appian Way...

namatad: christ, the NH recount lasted until they had a special election almost a year later?
so MINN, you have a LONG way to go to win the most farked up election record

If (when) Coleman loses this contest, he can (will) appeal it to the Minnesota Supreme Court. It's not even close to over yet.

Yes... this downsized government is refreshing.

Everyone on tv, in the media, and everywhere biatched about Gore when it was stolen from him and they denied a recount.

Minnesota has had at LEAST 2 and Coleman was appealed at least 2 or 3 times.

GIVE IT UP, ASSWIPE.

Everything to be said about this has pretty much already been said, so I'm just going to say that this is stupid. Really F*cking stupid.

Wow, this shiat is still going on? -1 for democracy.

Hopefully this teaches Minnesota to tighten up it's election laws when it comes to petty objections by the loser. "No election is resolved until the last objection is settled" only works when neither of the candidates is a sniveling panty-waist belonging to a cult that is THISCLOSE to strapping on explosives and running onto the senate floor to disrupt the Democrats.

bubbaprog: mikemoto: This is what should happen. Minnesota should have another election.

Why? There is a clear winner. What is your imaginary threshold by which voters should be forced to vote again for the same candidate for which they have already voted?

I don't know that there is a clear winner. As a former resident of MN, I've been following it pretty closely, even though I technically don't have a dog in this race. If I still lived there I would have voted for anyone but that douchebag Coeman, but there are too many inconsistencies to declare anyone a fair winner at this point.

jake3988: Everyone on tv, in the media, and everywhere biatched about Gore when it was stolen from him and they denied a recount.

Minnesota has had at LEAST 2 and Coleman was appealed at least 2 or 3 times.

GIVE IT UP, ASSWIPE.

This is actually incorrect. There has been exactly one recount, mandated by state election law. Franken won the recount. Now Coleman is suing to change the results.

At least here in Illinois they would know who won weeks before the election. By election morning the results have been printed already. Minnesota does things too slow.

gamepolice: At least here in Illinois they would know who won weeks before the election. By election morning the results have been printed already. Minnesota does things too slow.

Seriously.

You're dropping the ball Minnesota.

Makh: Yes but, Franken would be more amusing.

Not anymore. Franken turned into Michael Moore. Once a sometimes-funny-man, now a partisan douchenozzle.

I didn't votr for him, but at this point I am all for Dean Barkley, Minnesota's substitute Senator, as a placeholder.

MorningBreath: given the two candidates in question, having neither in office is the best option.

This. We're hardly worse off for only having one senator.

FilmBELOH20: bubbaprog: mikemoto: This is what should happen. Minnesota should have another election.

Why? There is a clear winner. What is your imaginary threshold by which voters should be forced to vote again for the same candidate for which they have already voted?

I don't know that there is a clear winner. As a former resident of MN, I've been following it pretty closely, even though I technically don't have a dog in this race. If I still lived there I would have voted for anyone but that douchebag Coeman, but there are too many inconsistencies to declare anyone a fair winner at this point.

Your post makes it clear you haven't been paying any attention at all to this issue, despite being from MN. There are no inconsistencies outside of the feverish minds of Coleman and his supporters who are really nothing more than tools for the national Republican party and obstruction in the senate. It's absolute bullshiat.

FilmBELOH20: I don't know that there is a clear winner. As a former resident of MN, I've been following it pretty closely, even though I technically don't have a dog in this race. If I still lived there I would have voted for anyone but that douchebag Coeman, but there are too many inconsistencies to declare anyone a fair winner at this point.

What inconsistencies? Ignoring the PR lies from both Coleman and Franken things have been consistent and I have been proud of how my state has handled this.

/voted for Barkely

mikemoto: This is what should happen. Minnesota should have another election.

Yes - because changing the election laws in the middle of an election is really a great idea.

/not

Minnesota should just let Senator Palpitane be in charge for awhile.

Franken's stint at Air America was good training for being at the center of a mess and waiting for months for a paycheck that may never come.

Can't we all just....

..... splice their DNA and run it as a "bipartisan candidate?"

Elektrohed: Can't we all just....

..... splice their DNA and run it as a "bipartisan candidate?"

Coleman's contest has failed to show that there are enough questionable votes (under state law) to change the result as determined and certified by the state.

He is now seeking to redefine the state laws to create enough contestable votes.fark him and the horse he rode in on.

mikemoto: namatad: christ, the NH recount lasted until they had a special election almost a year later?
so MINN, you have a LONG way to go to win the most farked up election record

This is what should happen. Minnesota should have another election.

Or Coleman should stop being a biatch and admit he got smoked.

FilmBELOH20: bubbaprog: mikemoto: This is what should happen. Minnesota should have another election.

Why? There is a clear winner. What is your imaginary threshold by which voters should be forced to vote again for the same candidate for which they have already voted?

I don't know that there is a clear winner. As a former resident of MN, I've been following it pretty closely, even though I technically don't have a dog in this race. If I still lived there I would have voted for anyone but that douchebag Coeman, but there are too many inconsistencies to declare anyone a fair winner at this point.

There is a clear winner. I am guessing you are a Republican if you think otherwise.

Solution: Take Minnesota's Senate seat away, give it to DC until the next election. MN gets punished for being incompetent, and we can see how DC does with one.

See? The process works here.

bhcompy: Makh: Yes but, Franken would be more amusing.

Not anymore. Franken turned into Michael Moore. Once a sometimes-funny-man, now a partisan douchenozzle.

I'm sick of people biatching about partisanship. It's not like either side is free of it in any way whatsoever.

At this point, Franken would win by a considerable margin if they re-held the election. But, that shouldn't happen. If the way to win is by whoever gets the most votes, it doesn't matter if the different is 1 vote or 1,000,000 votes.

RevMercutio: bhcompy: Makh: Yes but, Franken would be more amusing.

Not anymore. Franken turned into Michael Moore. Once a sometimes-funny-man, now a partisan douchenozzle.

I'm sick of people biatching about partisanship. It's not like either side is free of it in any way whatsoever.

The comment wasn't about partisanship, it was about Franken being funny. Franken was funny when he wasn't a douchenozzle.

While Coleman did in fact win, at this point Franken has managed to screw things up so much that there's no telling what will happen.

When the final ruling comes in and all the ways for Coleman to contest this are finished, I'm going to open a bottle of my finest Tears of Impotent Rage (vintage 20081104) to celebrate.

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