CNN reporting Al Franken has 89 vote lead with count completed

[IDemo]

but not projecting him the winner yet????

[MarjorieG]

1. Coleman may want the absentee ballots counted now.

[gratuitous]

6. Shouldn't Coleman concede?

For the good of the electorate, of course.

[backscatter712]

13. Coleman's likely to be about as good of a sport as Marilyn Musgrave...

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

[gratuitous]

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?

[backscatter712]

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.

[mucifer]

2. Nate Silver is predicting more chaos will ensue.

oy vey!

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. Nate's the man and on top of it

Thanks for the quick link



Geez, what a gut wrencher.

[Dennis Donovan]

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:

[Dinger]

4. Holy Shit, I Am THRILLED!

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

[dflprincess]

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)

[IDemo]

7. I think Anderson Cooper jumped the gun

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

[itsrobert]

8. How about this?

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

[itsrobert]

9. It's projection

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

And it's "its".

[creeksneakers2]

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.

[Poiuyt]

12. The count has not been completed. They hope to finish it Friday

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

[nadinbrzezinski]

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

[Rhiannon12866]

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: