Franklin in the lead????

[briann]

What?  Every time there is a 'revision' Franklin gets more votes... Now he's supposedly in the lead by 150 votes.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/36438459.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUnc5PDiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

The state Canvassing Board's first rush of ballot rulings in the U.S. Senate race has unofficially put challenger Al Franken in the lead by more than 150.


By PAUL WALSH, Star Tribune

The intense scrutiny of "voter intent" resumed this morning by the five-member board charged with directing Minnesota's recount in the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democratic rival Al Franken, and the first 90 minutes of ballot rulings turned the challenger's slight deficit into a growing triple-digit lead.

Also this morning, the State Canvassing Board sidestepped the Coleman team's proposal to prevent as many as 150 ballots from being counted twice. Talking about instances when a ballot couldn't be run through a voting machine, requiring a duplicate to be made, the Coleman camp said that such ballots should be counted only if an original could be matched with its copy.

However, board members today ruled that the duplicates should not be addressed by the board but in "another forum," said Board Chairman Mark Ritchie. But it will consider the ballots if there are questions about the intent of the voters who cast them, the board said.

Later in the morning, Coleman officials requested that the state Supreme Court prevent the Canvassing Board from including these votes in its recount totals.

On Thursday, the board reviewed Coleman's challenges of hundreds of Election Day ballots, and the day's work saw the unofficial margin between the candidates dwindle to within a handful of votes.

Then, as the board took up and rejected more Coleman challenges today, Franken pulled ahead in the opening minutes and steadily built his advantage beyond 150 within the first two hours.

Moments after Franken took the lead, Coleman campaign spokesman Mark Drake said in a statement: "While varying headlines and a flurry of different numbers will continue, we encourage everyone to just hang on until the process is finished. When it is finished, Norm Coleman will still lead, and we believe, be re-elected to the United States Senate."

[RanterMaximus]

I really hope Al Franken gets a heart attack and drops dead.  I despise him. 

[New Yorker]

This is the Demonrats attempting to steal an election. The Republicans better rise up and not have it!

[RanterMaximus]

If Franken were a Republican, the media would cry bloody murder.  If Franken or any member of his staff so much as eats a bad Mexican dinner and blows up the bathroom, they find about 200 new votes floating in the toilet.

[zachor_ve_kavod]

They love this guy.  Do you know why?  Because he's the biggest, slimiest, most pathetic coward and worm in American politics today.  Why would liberals love someone like that?  Because he makes them look good.  And for a Leftist, feeling good about oneself is the most important thing.

[Americanhero1]

[Lisa]

Al Franken, aside from being a slimy worm, is extremely ugly to look at.  Plus he stank on Saturday Night Live. 

[Sparky]

Al Franken, aside from being a slimy worm, is extremely ugly to look at.  Plus he stank on Saturday Night Live. 

Actually, I thought he did some funny bits on SNL.  But he's a classic self-hating Bolshevik Jew.  I'm growing weary of having to answer to my Christains friends as to why so many Jews are leftists.