Congratulations to Senator Al Franken

[pscot]

Uptakes video feed show him leading after the absentees by 223 votes. http://theuptake.org/.

[aquart]

1. I'll wait for certification.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. Which will not happen until the lawsuits are concluded *sigh*

[Hamlette]

6. has that been decided? I didn't hear that. n/t

[ProgressiveProfessor]

15. No, the presumption is that the loser has 7 days to file suit which blocks final certificantion

[aquart]

17. Yep. *sigh*

[applegrove]

2. Woohoo!

:woohoo:

[mzmolly]

4. It's an especially beautiful

evening here in Minnesota. Ahhhhhhh. :)

[eleny]

5. k&r

[pscot]

7. Franken gained 174 votes

from the challenged absentees, and now leads Norm 'horsedentures' Coleman by 223 votes. Normy may whine, he may litigate, he may shit his drawers, but he is an erstwhile senator.

[pl259]

10. delete

:silly:

[Aviation Pro]

12. Neigh, he will prance around....

...like a Lippanzaner.

[redstate_democrat]

8. OMG! We might actually get a fighting Dem in the Senate!

:fistbump:

[spanone]

9. concede mr coleman you have lost the race

[fla nocount]

14. I think that he might, maybe under party pressure.

Any protest is sour grapes from this point and they know it. It's Wellstone's seat and constituents and they know that too. If Franken and Coleman had run head to head it would have been an embarrassing loss for the republicans. They didn't get enough of the spoiler votes to make a difference.

[pscot]

11. Franken's led at 225

That's the final tally from the election judge conducting the count.

[Fluffdaddy]

13. This is far from over....................But it's looking good for our guy

[LisaL]

16. Great news indeed.