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19 Dec
Clown Candidate Al Franken Now Leading in Minnesota Senate Recount
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Friday, December 19th, 2008 at 1:12 pm | 9 views
I’m in general agreement that most of the news which has come out about the specifics of the recount indicates an effort to — shall we say — give Franken the benefit of the doubt at every turn. It’s the converse of the situation in Florida in 2000, when the other Party controlled the Secretary of State’s office and made decisions seemingly favorable to their candidate.
I don’t think that any statewide election separated by only a few hundred votes can ever be decided unequivocally.
On a personal level, I’m rooting for Coleman. I want to lower the threshold for successfully filibustering legislation. This will prevent Congress from forcing Obama too far to the left on a range of divisive issues. I like the idea of the GOP helping to cover Obama’s a– with the most liberal sector of the Democratic base and, at the same time, to help Obama avoid alienating conservative-leaning centrists.
- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach
“It’s the converse of the situation in Florida in 2000.”
No Larry it’s exactly the same as Florida 2000 where Dems tried to disenfranchise military voters and selectively recount counties where Al Gore was strongest.
Such moral equivalism on your part only serves to enable this kind of anti-democratic tactic in the future.
“This will prevent Congress from forcing Obama too far to the left on a range of divisive issues.” (Larry W.)
LOL! Now Larry thinks that Obama is a puppet… lol and re-lol! Is your admiration for your gourou fading off? It is about time.
“I want to lower the threshold for successfully filibustering legislation.” (Larry W.)
LOL! So now you do not trust Democrat Congress and Obama anymore? Would you be a flip-flopper like you master? Like attracts like.
Back to the subject:
The USA voting system stinks. Get rid of these voting machines, they are too easy for manipulation and fraud. Stop that early voting process; aloud it only in special cases, like people who will be out of the country on election day or other special cases. Try to unify the voting processus thru the States. Paper ballots are the best to avoid fraud. Do not aloud voting thru mail or Internet or in small places like stores or whatever.
I don’t know how your system works exactly, but here in Canada, on election day, in every polling places, at every tables, there is a representative of each Party that supervises the voting. At the end of the day, when they open the ballot box at each voting tables, it is counted in front of the two representative of each Party and then the box is sealed with the results on top of the box. It is then picked up by two other representatives of each party and brought to the general head office of election in each provinces. We never have the problem that you have, unless a candidate win by a margin less than 50 votes, those ballots are recounted in the presence of both Parties.
Can you provide a “cite” for Democrats “trying to disenfranchise military voters?”
Here’s the best summary I could find:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/politics/12VOTE.html?ex=1229835600&en=b632baa2261708a8&ei=5070
“A statistical analysis conducted for The Times determined that if all counties had followed state law in reviewing the absentee ballots, Mr. Gore would have picked up as many as 290 additional votes, enough to tip the election in Mr. Gore’s favor in some of the situations studied in the statewide ballot review.
“But Mr. Gore chose not to challenge these ballots because many were from members of the military overseas, and Mr. Gore did not want to be accused of seeking to invalidate votes of men and women in uniform.”
With regard to the possible strategy of recounting the entire state, including initially rejected ballots (as is being done in Minnesota), this was precluded by Kathryn Harris imposing unrealistic deadlines for vote counting, in addition to the deadlines imposed by the electoral college. It’s not like the situation in Minnesota, where there is literally unlimited time to complete a comprehensive recount.
- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA
Poor Larry, you still think that Gore won? LOL! You really like fraudulous people, do you? Gore is just another manipulator like Obama. Gore and his fraudulent Global Warming … what an idiot! But like I always say: Like atracts like.
Craig, I’m going to give a gold star to Larry on this one for recognizing that absolute power corrrupts absolutely. We do not need to compromise our precarious position by having a supermajority. And most level-headed Americans know a checks and balances system is healthy.
Franken, IMHO, would be a disgrace to grocery baggers, let alone a Senate seat. However with him in the lead by dredging up everything he can, I suspect he now will be the one to start screaming “stop now!”
Mike,
First of all there is NO stealing going on in this recount. It is totally above board.
BOTH sides watching very closely.
There is a 5 Member board consisting of both Republicans and Democrats. The scrutiny is extreme.
It is being done in a room open to the public and is being watched very very closely.
To even suggest it’s stealing an election is OUTRAGEOUS and Arrogant on your part.
For those who want to know the real story check here:
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/36438459.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUxWoW_oD:EaDUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU
Larry: Military absentee ballots. Sorry I don’t have a citation as authoritative and objective as the NY Times but didn’t they also conclude that by every objective ballot counting measure Bush won?
Mata: Is it feeding time again?
Obama is certainly no “puppet.” But he is a politician, and a very skilled one, at that. What he is trying to do (as I have been explaining ever since the election, more than a month ago) is to try to squat down in the middle of the political spectrum. He wants to “own” 65% of the electorate. The way he does that is to govern as far to the right as he can get.
Lemme give you a for instance:
The Dems try to enact legislation denying federal funds to hospitals which don’t provide abortion counseling. Something like that. Or legislation which has the effect of promoting official government recognition of same sex “marriages.”
If Obama signs such legislation, he alienates the right. If he refuses to sign it, he infuriates the left-most part of his base.
But, if the GOP filibusters the legislation, he’s off the hook. I can see a certain amount of that stuff happening. Clinton had it far easier, in a sense, when the GOP took control. He wasn’t presented with such far left legislation.
On the other hand, I’m sure that Obama will be very effective in forging a filibuster-proof consensus on a range of clearly meritorious legislation.
Anyway, I also think that Coleman is a better Senator that Franken is likely to be, based on the few times I listened to extended segments of Air America.
- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach
LOL, Mike…. I doth believe the feeding time must be overdue, evidenced by the voracious appetites for moonbat sniping. Not to mention desperation.
Uh… ever heard of stealing in plain sight with the help of the courts, CRAP/Sky55110? I do believe that was the Dem battle cry in 2000. Now you suggest that “every vote must count” (tell that to Hillary and the PUMAs, bubba), and that this is just insuring a legal election.
My my.. how does it feel to swap the shoes on your feet, RAP/sky? Can you walk a less less to the left now?
Didn’t think so….
“To even suggest it’s stealing an election is OUTRAGEOUS and Arrogant on your part.” (Crap)
lol! Obama’s thugs hacked the voting machines, I am sure of that. And this was done with no fingerprints and no witness. You are very naïve and do not realize how your Obama is corrupted. I am even sure that Obama did not win this election. It was all fraud since the beginning.
Is this a prediction for Obama’s response on the “conscience rule”, Larry? Interesting subject, BTW. Trying to pull it all together now. But you know me… must have some background. Patience, please…
The NYT concluded that Bush would have won with either of the only two vote counting strategies ever advanced by the Gore team, which were selective re-count of a few counties or re-count only of “accepted” ballots state-wide (realizing that there wasn’t enough time to count the initially rejected ballots). There were, however, several scenarios where Gore might have won, had the initially rejected ballots been counted on a state-wide basis. These are detailed on the link I provided.
In all scenarios, however, vote margins were in the 100s, not thousands, and the election was effectively a draw, just like the present Minnesota election.
- Larry Weisenthal/HB
Just to give you an example here, how fraud is easy in voting machines:
In New Hampshire, nearly 90% of our votes are counted by a private corporation with a criminal history using trade secret software with known defects that threaten the integrity of the vote count. This technology was originally developed by a convicted embezzler by the name of Jeffrey Dean. His specialty was alteration of computer records. The corporation that owns and markets the technology has a history of partisan ties and questionable business practices. It is currently implicated in a lawsuit tying the company to a widespread conspiracy to defraud the nation’s elections.
When election watchdogs attempted to provide citizen oversight during the 2008 Primary recount, they were met with intimidation and obstructionism. Afterwards, the legislature, at the urging of the Scretary of State, responded by tacking on a rider to pending legislation in order to tighten the noose around our democratic processes and make recounts more difficult to obtain.
When citizens attempted to provide oversight to the central tally following the 2008 General Election, the state responded by locking them out and warning them to stay clear of where the counts were being conducted in “nonpublic” rooms within the offices of the Secretary of State.
This kind of obstructionist behavior on the part of our election officials is alarming. Do our public officials remember that they are public servants, that the elections belong to the public, and that open vote counting is mandated by the New Hampshire Constitution?
http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/node/view/6291
CRAP: Glad you were able to take advantage of the full story offered by the Star Tribune. Do me a favor and go back and count the links to the star tribune (including the widget) that I have offered in my two posts on this subject.
I’ll stand by my conclusions. Dems are trying to steal this election.
Larry: Here are some more examples for you via Ann Coulter:
Make sure you listen to the two videos in the article that I have linked in my previous post # 14.
Larry, Gore called in the lawyers first and initially attempted to keep the military ballots from being counted. When it became clear it would be hugely bad publicity for him, he backed down.
Here’s an article Larry:
How Gore Cheated American Troops Serving Overseas
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/5/8/225831.shtml
Oh and Larry, Katherine Harris seemed to be aware that allowing the dems to get all the recounts they wanted would create what we see in MN and the examples Ann wrote about. They have no problem gaming the system or even cheating to win.
The article you cited is hardly neutral and objective. Even giving the article the benefit of the doubt, it seems obvious that this was a fairly crude and fairly short-lived effort by a handful of the legion of lawyers on the ground and there is no indication that Gore himself had anything to do with it.
Not that I think it’s the ultimate source for information about the Florida recount, but the HBO show “Recount” made it pretty clear that Gore was not infrequently over-ruling initial decisions which were made on his behalf by his team of lawyers. Lawyers will be lawyers. Their first instinct is to do what can be done to win using any tactics which are legal. Politics, a wise and knowing FA blogger wrote, is war. I seriously doubt that GOP lawyers are any different than DEM lawyers, in this regard. It strains credulity to believe that Gore himself would be so politically tone-deaf as to try and disqualify the votes of servicemen overseas on a technicality.
- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA
Larry disqualifies every articles against his Party, but will believe any lies on Sarah Palin… lol
Well, well, well! Due to the miraculous timing of the financial crisis, Congress should take a cut in their pay check this coming year. After all, they get paid with the taxpayer’s money, so they should lower their salaries during this awful “recession” that they have created.
Craig stated:
“Obama’s thugs hacked the voting machines, I am sure of that. And this was done with no fingerprints and no witness. You are very naïve and do not realize how your Obama is corrupted. I am even sure that Obama did not win this election. It was all fraud since the beginning.”
Show some real proof! I am certain you have none.
Would that be the same kind of hacking that happened on voter machines in Ohio 2004???
You are so full of yourself!! YOU lost get over it!!
Rap, do you even KNOW how ironic that statement is, or how it degrades the 8yrs of whining from Dems about stealing elections? This is like if someone spelled ‘moron’ w two R’s (sometimes appropriate, other times…not-so-much)
Coleman adjusting to ’59′:
Looks like it’s gonna be 59.