Did Al Franken win?

[Ned_Devine]

[vaberella]

1. It sounded like he was losing. n/t

[LisaL]

2. No.

[That Is Quite Enough]

3. Losing. But I'm not giving up until they call it for Coleman.

[Common Sense Party]

4. Still tied, the last I saw. n/t

[SoCalDemocrat]

5. I think he won

Last I saw he was leading by a sizeable margin. I would be surprised if he did not win.

If it is close we should take a very hard look at the election results and machines / vote counts.

[Occam Bandage]

7. MN uses optical scan with paper ballots. nt

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

6. Last I saw (20 min ago) it was 43-42 Coleman-Franken n/t

[AzNick]

8. TCTC

That's what I saw.

[Liberal In Texas]

9. Not looking good. 43 Coleman 41 Franken. n/t

[Pryderi]

10. 43-41 Coleman

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/individual/#mapSMN

[Phoonzang]

11. No, he'll probably lose

Oh well.

[TygrBright]

12. Some kind Minnesota DFLer PLEASE take Dean Barkley out and give him a big, fat noogie for me?

Dickhead.

irritatedly,
Bright

[Left Is Write]

14. Yes. Exactly this.

[kath]

13. Current results from MN SoS website shows him down by only around 5500 votes,

with almost 82% of the precincts in.

http://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/20081104/ElecRslts.asp?M=S&R=S

[kath]

15. Just updated - down by 6350.

[Common Sense Party]

16. Update: Franken down by 8821 votes. Coleman widening gap.

But it's a very tiny gap. 42.1% to 41.72%.

Unfortunately, 82.78% of precincts are in.

[Common Sense Party]

17. Franken down by 9130 votes.

Right now, momentum doesn't seem to be on his side.

Are rural votes or urban votes the last to get tallied?

[Common Sense Party]

18. Down by 10,159. n/t

[Common Sense Party]

19. This is butt-pucker close...Gap only 7381 now!

Republican NORM COLEMAN 1004486 42.08
Democratic-Farmer-Labor AL FRANKEN 997105 41.77

[kath]

20. TIghtening - now down by 7381

[Common Sense Party]

21. Cheez Whiz, this is gonna be close. n/t

[Common Sense Party]

22. Down by 9153

86.56% reporting

[RL3AO]

23. If it finishes withing 0.5% of all votes (around 14,000 or so)

there is a automatic recount.

[Hawkowl]

24. 9000 Votes behind 10:25 PST

[Common Sense Party]

25. 9884 votes, with 87.05% reporting

Republican NORM COLEMAN 1018431 42.12
Democratic-Farmer-Labor AL FRANKEN 1008547 41.71

[Common Sense Party]

26. Franken down by 12,055 votes. 87.89% reporting

Not looking good...

[Common Sense Party]

27. 14805 votes down

Republican NORM COLEMAN 1046547 42.22
Democratic-Farmer-Labor AL FRANKEN 1031742 41.63

[Common Sense Party]

28. 15,455 votes. 89.18% reporting

[Common Sense Party]

29. Down by 17,500...90.07% reporting

Republican NORM COLEMAN 1059912 42.27
Democratic-Farmer-Labor AL FRANKEN 1042412 41.57


And with that, now that they're over 90% reported, I'm going to bed.

[kath]

30. TIghtening again - now down by 13000