Franken takes the lead!!!!!!!!

[DemFromMem]

http://abcnews.go.com/politics/elections/?category=Minnesota

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Thank goodness... I can breathe again...maybe even go to sleep

[babylonsister]

10. Haha! I'm done myself. Too much. nt

[Bippity Boo]

2. WTF?!!!!

Oh please please please please. Coleman, GTFO.

[doublethink]

3. bout 1000 vote lead ... come on Al !!!!

Bring it home Al !!!

[That Is Quite Enough]

4. ...And stay that way!

Excellent news. But I'm not done nailbiting yet.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. NAIL BITER!

(Awesome avatar BTW)

[Frosty1]

6. COME ON AL!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[HopeFor2006]

7. I don't know if I'm going to get any sleep tonight!

[Eric J in MN]

8. Why does ABC have 96% reporting while the SOS website has 94.84%?

Does ABC have a source other than the SOS website?

http://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/20081104/ElecRslts.asp?M=S&R=all&P=A&Races=%27%27

http://abcnews.go.com/politics/elections/?category=Minnesota

[rockymountaindem]

9. YES! Come on Al!

Let's make Falafel Boy really eat his heart out!

[Dennis Donovan]

11. C'mon, Al!!!!

:bounce:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

12. YES!!!

after Obama, this one was #2 on my wish list

[sasquatch]

13. Come on Gophers, I wanna see O'Reilly's head explode on tv like in that movie scanners

:rofl:

[Diane R]

14. This was my one big disappointment of the night. Al deserves this. Sending him all good vibes.

[AllyCat]

15. Oh please , oh please, oh please!

We want Al!!!

MN WTF is up with Bachmann?????

[Eric J in MN]

20. Michele Bachmann went from an 8 point victory in 2006,

...to a 4 point victory in 2008.

There was an open seat in 2006.

Incumbency didn't help her.

[byronius]

16. I'm dying for this one. Go go go go Al.

[MNBrewer]

17. YAY

:beer:

[byronius]

18. LEAD WIDENING!

Coleman (R) 1,150,728 42%
Franken (D) 1,152,048 42%

[TahitiNut]

Franken with 1,320 vote lead at 3:04 AM EST

Go, Al!

[LaPera]

19. Amazing, in a night of amazement. Hold on Al!

[buddysmellgood]

21. Oh sweet Jesus...let it be. We really need some reality in the Senate. Senator Franken

would be hard nosed and backed by FACTS! Jujitsu. He will call BULLSHIT on both sides. We need him there.
And, it will make CSpan so much more fun.

[OneDemsConscience]

22. Only a few hundred vote lead

with 99% of the precincts in.

This one looks like a recount. One wonders what those 150K voting for Barkley were thinking--too bad there's no instant runoff voting so our true preferences can be registered.

So Alaska, Oregon, and Minn all too close to call, with Minn the most promising of the 3. GA? Will Chambliss get to 50%?

Still a great night for the Senate given the Dole and Sununnu defeats and the Udall victories.

[BanTheGOP]

23. GET OUR RECOUNT TEAMS AND LAWYERS SENT TO MINNESOTA ASAP!!

WE NEED THIS ONE TO MAKE A SUPER MAJORITY, ALONG WITH ALASKA

Republican NORM COLEMAN 1198886 42.12
Democratic-Farmer-Labor AL FRANKEN 1190758 41.83

[ProdigalJunkMail]

24. Franken has this, i think

Duluth has not reported it would appear and from another thread i saw that Franken has a 12000 vote lead there...

http://www.perfectduluthday.com/2008/11/duluth_election_results_22_of.html

However, it is unlikely that a supermajority will arise. 40 have already been called for the Repubs and there is 1 more that will go in GA. Saxby Chambliss will be re-elected in the runoff (if there even is one).

sP