CNN reporting Al Franken has 89 vote lead with count completed

IDemo

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:16 PM
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CNN reporting Al Franken has 89 vote lead with count completed

Edited on Thu Dec-18-08 10:17 PM by IDemo

but not projecting him the winner yet????

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MarjorieG

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:18 PM
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1. Coleman may want the absentee ballots counted now.

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gratuitous

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:26 PM
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6. Shouldn't Coleman concede?

For the good of the electorate, of course.

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backscatter712

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:48 PM
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13. Coleman's likely to be about as good of a sport as Marilyn Musgrave...

Get ready for a tremendous amount of hideous screeching...

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gratuitous

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:58 PM
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14. Has anyone seen Musgrave in the last month or so?

Is she still threatening to hold her breath until she turns blue, or did she just run down the hall and slam her bedroom door?

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backscatter712

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Fri Dec-19-08 04:33 AM
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17. She came out of her hiding place long enough to make a sleazy attack ad for Chambilss' runoff...

She recorded a message that went into robocalls all over Georgia blaming her defeat on pro-abortion radicals and leftist special interests.

I'm so fucking glad that Colorado's 4th District is rid of that bitch.

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mucifer

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:19 PM
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2. Nate Silver is predicting more chaos will ensue.

oy vey!

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

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Ichingcarpenter

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:44 PM
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10. Nate's the man and on top of it

Thanks for the quick link

Geez, what a gut wrencher.

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Dennis Donovan

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:19 PM
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3. Slightly off topic, but I like that CNN has adopted the kyron of CNNI

It's more subdued.

Now, about the topic at hand: Yeah, man!!!
:party::toast:Al! Al! Al! Al!:toast::party:

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Dinger

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:20 PM
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4. Holy Shit, I Am THRILLED!

I want this SO GODDAMNED BAD!!!!!!!!!!

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dflprincess

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:20 PM
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5. CNN's says it's information is coming from the Mpls Star Tribune

but the Strib's website still has Coleman up by 5 (I just checked before I typed this)

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IDemo

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:35 PM
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7. I think Anderson Cooper jumped the gun

I'm seeing nothing anywhere else on this, including the Star Tribune. :shrug:

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itsrobert

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:40 PM
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8. How about this?

http://senaterecount.startribune.com/ballots/

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itsrobert

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:42 PM
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9. It's projection

http://senaterecount.startribune.com/ballots/

And it's "its".

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creeksneakers2

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:45 PM
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11. The Star-Tribune projected Franken by 89

but the projection is based only on about 26,000 unscientifically selected ordinary people voting on ballots shown on the web. All challenged ballots were put on-line for this voting.

The method of projection is pretty flawed. Star-Tribune says in all but 200 challenges 75% of their respondents agreed with the original local board decisions. But that leaves 200, and there's lots of other challenges and absentee ballots and other matters still outstanding.

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Poiuyt

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:45 PM
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12. The count has not been completed. They hope to finish it Friday

The Star Tribune is projecting an 89 vote win for Franken.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Thu Dec-18-08 11:03 PM
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15. That is the tribune projection, today coleman was still up by

five when they were done

Local channels were reporting two

So yes, by tomorrow it will be decided

O'Reilly saying senator Al franken, I reccomend DUKING... that head will explode

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Rhiannon12866

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Fri Dec-19-08 12:18 AM
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16. The way I heard it explained is that once the vote is certified,

even if the absentee votes aren't all re-counted, whoever is ahead at that point is going to be declared the winner. At least, that's the precedent. I truly hope that it's Al... :patriot:

It never dawned on me that he wouldn't win. Who in their right mind would vote for the likes of Norm Coleman?! :crazy:

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