Laugh Riot
As comic is relieved of brief lead in Minnesota’s Senate slapstick act. It’s a complicated joke, hard to follow, but ex-SNL comic/lefty talk radio flop Al Franken pulled ahead by 22 when they found some mystery ghost ballots in Maplewood. The latest snappy comeback is 133 votes for which no ballots actually exist in Minneapolis. Net Franken loss: 46 votes!
Hey, that’s not funny. Frankencamp protests, while Star-Trib’s tally puts Coleman ahead 316. Still awaiting last laugh. Now that Chambliss has won and the filibuster heat is off, the only potential losers in this race are the people of Minnesota if Franken manages to deliver a punch line. The rest of us get to sit back and enjoy the comedy routine. Now, if Paterson will just appoint Bill …
Here’s an NYT op-ed opining that recounts are pointless, noting that they largely uncover voter error, and voter idiocy, “lizard people,” not voter intent. NYU journo prof Charles Seife declares it a statistical tie and proposes a coin-toss. I have a better idea. How about giving it to Coleman, who won in the first count.
Star-Trib’s backgrounder on the whole mess.
WPost’s Fix with its take on the math and some Senate race recount history.
Nod to Memeorandum on the roundup.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:33 am on Thursday, December 4, 2008
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December 4th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Go, Norm..! I hope Mitch McConnell has some dandy polaroids in a safe place of Olympia Snowe & Susan Collins and…well…errrr…small barnyard animals…as their votes can NEVER be assumed.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Oh sure, they NYT is for a coin toss now, when it looks like their guy is going to lose after the recount. But in 2004 it was “count every vote!”
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/opinion/20mon1.html?oref=login