As today’s count progresses, Tim Carney at Human Events:

“At the moment, a Franken win looks slightly more likely than a Coleman win.”

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(Politico-The Crypt) Donors to Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman’s reelection campaign may be surprised to learn that the St. Paul Republican is planning to use their contributions to pay blue-chip criminal defense lawyers to defend him against a reported FBI probe into his dealings with a wealthy businessman.

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Star Tribune– Four of Minnesota’s biggest legal guns have cast their shadows over two lawsuits that have drawn the attention of the FBI.

They have been retained by U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman; his wife, Laurie; Jim Hays, her insurance company employer; and Nasser Kazeminy, a multi-millionaire friend of the Colemans who is accused in the lawsuits of sending them money in 2007 through Hays’ company. Coleman’s Senate ethics form reports no such payment.

While that’s happening, Powerline looks at Coleman’s recount prospects and states:
“I am worried. I think you would be right to be worried.”

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(Politico) Coleman campaign manager Cullen Sheehan disputed the Franken numbers, and accused the Franken campaign of being “prepared to say and do anything to win an election that they lost on Election Night.”

“Today, they’ve invented a story of a lead in the recount,” said Sheehan. “We have confidence that on Friday the results of the recount will show Norm Coleman has emerged, again, as the winner of the 2008 United States Senate election.”

Note that Sheehan, won’t speak to the present tense of Franken being in the lead now, and runs to the future, on this Friday.

This is good news.

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Norm Coleman (R) 1,044,255 Contesting 2448 ballots
Al Franken (DFL) 1,040,285 Contesting 2292 ballots

Current Lead 3,970
Net gain from Nov. 4 count Coleman +77

Ballots Recounted: 86.04%
Precints Reporting: 89.64%
8:00 p.m. – 11/26/2008

http://wcco.com/

The Big question comes from what becomes of the contested ballots.

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It seems they have completed nearly 90% of the recount but it is very confusing:

http://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/20081104/SenateRecount.asp

The Star Tribune puts the Coleman lead at 282 votes:

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/

There is one large chunk of ballots yet to be counted by the Dec. 5th (Friday) deadline and I am not sure, but I think it is Minneapolis, the largest urban area of the state.

As we all know from experience that’s where last minute new votes are readily found in abundance by Democrats working on those boards. They wait to report their results last so they can determine how many more votes they need. It’s the same thing we have seen in places like Seattle and in the Indiana primary between Hillary and Obama with Gary Indiana reporting last.

I’m cautiously optimistic at this point but it’s not over until it is over.

Next, we have the runoff in neighboring Georgia with Saxby Chambliss (R) holding the lead. That vote takes place on Tuesday Dec. 2. Sarah Palin is coming to the state on Monday to help get out the vote.

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And that’s not all. Listen to James David Manning, PhD and author of The Olation Hour.

THE GREATEST AMERICAN FRAUD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1spPrzvYWRI

P.S.: My first comment is still awaiting moderation.

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Curt,
YOU ARE RIGHT. But, Acorn is not the only ones doing fraud. Apparently Google is destroying some conservative blog’s sites. Read this:
BOYCOTT GOOGLE
November 27, 2008 by texasdarlin

Politics aside (I’m a PUMA), I am standing by my friend and ally, conservative blogger Atlas Shrugs/Pamela Geller, who has been blacklisted by Google.

Let’s repeat that.

Google, the world’s number one search engine, is apparently adjusting its search engines to restrict access to anti-Obama information on the world wide web. I don’t know of a more intelligent, hard-working, ethical anti-Obama blogger than Atlas Shrugs. If Google is disappearing Pamela’s work, it’s flagrant political content-based censorship. Welcome to Obama’s Regime. And they say he’s a “liberal?”

Read Pam’s report here. It’s shocking and disturbing. But not surprising, in that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is reportedly in line to be Obama’s chief Tech Advisor.

Go to Atlas Shrugs and support her with a donation, so she can pay an expensive security consultant to get her work re-established in the blogosphere.

There isn’t much that raises my ire like good ole fashioned censorship. I’ve witnessed state-controlled societies first-hand, and I will fight until they drag me out of the ring to ensure that speech is free of political interference.

I haven’t checked to see if Google has tampered with “texasdarlin” searches. Please let me know. In the meantime, go lend Pam some love and muscle.

Effective immediately, I will no longer use Google search engine, or Gmail.

http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/

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