The latest from the Star-Tribune with 77% of the votes recounted:
http://ww2.startribune.com/new…
Coleman is now up 210 votes, and Coleman is challenging 124 more ballots than Franken 1625 to 1501.
Ramsey County is 55% complete with a Franken gain of 40. Even with all of the questionable Coleman challenges, I doubt Franken can overtake
Coleman in the December review. There’s to just too much of a gap for Nate Silver’s projection to come through.
And most of the counties that haven’t reported anything yet are smaller and mostly rural–and Coleman won most of them.
So is it over for Al?
St. Louis county is a huge democratic stronghold (Duluth) Its only like 34% reported last time i checked. This is also the county with those old voting machines. It will be critical to pick up more votes from this county and Ramsey county outside of Minneapolis/St.Paul
The latest–it’s 120. Franken only gained 16 votes today,
which won’t be enough.
Check out Meeker County–Franken “gained” 43 votes by challenging 51 (!) ballots, While Coleman only challenged seven.
as of 8:11 PM on the Star-Tribune.
and probably 2000-3000 challenged ballots to rule on, plus the pending ruling on rejected absentee ballots, it’s kind of hard to say that it’s over for Al. We’re not going to know who won until December 19, at the earliest.
Franken has actually lost 16 net votes in Hennepin.
It isn’t over till the panel sorts out all the challenges. Here’s an encouraging bit though. MyDD has a Front Page, also found here: http://the-uptake.groups.theup…
The video displays five “McCain-Franken” votes that are challenged by the Coleman campaign under “Voter intent” and then two McCain-Nobody are being challenged under “Voter intent”. Don’t quit yet.
There are a handful of absurdly challenged votes on this video too. Toward the end, you can see here: http://the-uptake.groups.theup…
This isn’t over till it’s over. Hopefully we don’t have absurd challenges like those and the rules can sort this race out.
Has a Senate race ever been decided by under 100 votes?
Sorry for the double post.
Coleman is challenging more ballots now–986 to 981.
Franken is losing votes in Hennepin County (and elsewhere).