Whoever runs in Minnesota stays in Minnesota?

[babylonsister]

Whoever runs in Minnesota stays in Minnesota?

Posted by: Richard Cowan


Nearly five months after the 2008 election, there’s no sign that either Norm Coleman or Al Franken will definitively be declared the winner in the race for one of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate seats, allowing him to spend the next six years in Washington.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell told Reuters in an interview that it could be many months before all legal challenges are exhausted. “I don’t think we’re going to see the end to this matter any time soon,” McConnell said.

For those who have forgotten about this cliff-hanger: Coleman, the Democrat-turned-Republican first-term senator running for reelection, lagged behind Democratic comedian-author-Franken by only 225 votes after a recount of nearly 2.4 million ballots cast for the two.

Legal challenges followed and the two candidates are awaiting a ruling any day now by a three-judge panel in Minnesota.

But McConnell said that won’t be the end of it. He said Coleman is likely to employ a Bush v. Gore argument and try to convince the courts that there needs to be a uniform standard of counting ballots throughout the state.

It “will be litigated out not only in state court but potentially in federal court as well,” McConnell predicted.

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http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2009/03/26/whoever-runs-in-minnesota-stays-in-minnesota/

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Coleman's an ass

[LuckyLib]

2. Coleman will carry out this charade as long as he can. His financial sponsors have deep pockets.

Some of the same idjits who love Michelle Bachmann. Others just big $$$ Minnesotans. Others are national Repugs needing to focus their rage and their money on nailing a Democrat -- any Democrat.

[blogslut]

3. Gah!

I would happily sock Mitch McConnell on the chin - if he had one.