A Georgia and Minnesota Senate Update
Did you know that if the R’s can hang on to forty-two Senate seats, forty-two is the answer to life, the universe, and everything? I digress.
We still have those two pesky open senate seats that need to be dealt with. First up is the run-off election in Georgia where Saxby Chambliss is up against it doesn’t matter. Saxby won on Election Day, but there was a third candidate and Georgia rules say that if you don’t get 50% the first time…you do it again. That’s on Tuesday.
Today, Sen. Chambliss will be joined on the stump by Sarah Palin at four different rallies. This will be interesting because, besides this being Palin’s first time out on the trail on her own, it will be the first time she’s been to Georgia. Palin drew huge crowds in Florida and Carolina…but that was also during the Presidential campaign. If Chambliss loses, expect fair and balanced media outlets like MSNBC and the New York Times to blame her for it. If she draws big numbers AND Chambliss wins…then they’ll just find something else to complain aboot.
Then there’s the Minnesota recount and Al Franken. Oh, Al Franken.
The way things stand now, incumbent Norm Coleman is ahead by 282 votes with 88% already recounted. Apparently for Franken to pull this off he needs to have a whole lot of them challenged in court…and he’s already lost a major court case.
Plus there’s the issue of, as far as I heard, the D’s don’t want him to win in the first place. 58 votes is enough for them to do the things they do, and the fear is that if Franken wins it will embolden every other idiot entertainer to run as well. Picture it…Chris Mathews running in PA, Alec Baldwin running in NY, Arianna Huffington running in CA, etc.
So that’s where we’re at. We should hear aboot Georgia by Wednesday morning. In Minnesota, I think we still have another week or two.
UPDATE: Apparently Franken might be stealing more votes…
UPDATE DEUX: That’s one down…
I hope that Mr. Franken wins why can’t anyone run for office? Maybe the politically entrenched like Coleman think it’s their legacy and people like comedians are not smart enough to be a senator. Norm Coleman has done a terrible job and some of the bills he got passed shows he’s not fit for any public office.
The state Canvassing Board today directed that a recount begin tomorrow in the U.S. Senate race between Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and DFLer Al Franken, even as the board considers a last-minute request from the Franken