"Razor-thin stimulus vote highlights stakes of Senate recount for Coleman, Franken in Minn"

[Dinger]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-minnesota-senate-race,0,6286202.story

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"The 59th vote in the Senate is very valuable, and that's obvious now," said Kathryn Pearson, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. "It's valuable for Democrats to add a vote, and it would be very valuable to Republicans to deny that vote.""

[WI_DEM]

1. Do you think this is going to go to the US Supreme Court?

[Dinger]

2. Damn, I Hope Not (nt)

[suston96]

10. If it does it will be fast tracked..........nt

[camera obscura]

3. Pawlenty hinted that the recount might go on through the spring and into summer.

I hope he was just BSing, because I'm not sure how much more of this I can take!

[Pierre.Suave]

4. This news story brought to you by

The Chicago Tribune, with Captain Obvious reporting...

[phleshdef]

5. Obama being nice to Lieberman wasn't such a bad idea after all.

Just sayin'

[Pierre.Suave]

6. yes it was

it would make no difference whether he voted with the repuglicons, or us.

he needs to get a good swift kick in the ass out the door of the senate.

[CakeGrrl]

7. That's up to the voters of Connecticut, not Obama.

They could have taken his subcommittee chair away from him, but until he loses re-election in CT, he is still a vote in the Senate.

[Pierre.Suave]

8. No kidding...

Are you Queen Obvious?

[phleshdef]

12. The fact that the stimulus barely passed proves you totally wrong as far as "making no difference"

[Pierre.Suave]

14. I think there are many more reason the stimulus barely passed

that have nothing to do with Joe Lieberman...

Without him, the Dems have the Majority, the only reason it barely passed is because the Dems have no backbone, and the repuglicons know that...

[Still Sensible]

9. Don't believe they would take it up

If Coleman tried to get a case before the USSC, I believe they'd refuse to hear it so fast Coleman's head would spin.

[Pierre.Suave]

11. Why?

I am curious to know why you think this.

[Still Sensible]

13. It would be a stretch for there to be a Federal issue

Because they can't come up with grounds to make it a Federal issue. There is no Federal issue involved in a statewide election. Could they try and get creative and come up with something? I suppose, but on its face I can't imagine what that could be... and the SC will be loathe to set a precedent of the court getting involved in statewide election disputes on issues that are solely within the individual state's jurisdiction.

I believe that's why you haven't heard the Coleman side claiming they would "take this all the way to the Supreme Court."

They can't even consider any thought of the USSC until they thoroughly exhaust their remedies in Minnesota anyway, because the SC would even consider it until that is complete.