Al Franken has been dissapointing today.

[EconomicLiberal]

How the heck is he losing to Coleman as Obama wins the state by 10%?

[Metric System]

1. Well, how is Prop 8 winning in California, even though Obama won the state?

[MadBadger]

6. Considering 85% of CA is still out, who knows.

[onehandle]

2. MSM numbers fooled me too. Better numbers ---->

http://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/20081104/ElecRslts.asp?M=S&R=all&P=A&Races=%27%27

[texastoast]

3. Check the other thread just posted

It says Dem areas are not in yet and that (to the chagrin of many trolls), "Franken's got this."

:bounce:

[d_b]

4. whew

thanx for that.

[book_worm]

5. I really don't know if Franken was the best choice as a candidate

but he won the nomination so that's mute. I hope he wins.

[returnable]

7. If, and that's a big IF, he loses, your disappointment should be with Minnesota voters...

...for falling for Norm's snake oil. Again.

[KharmaTrain]

8. A Third Party Hurt Franken

A couple months ago, I was ready to write Al off...thinking he didn't have the stuff to compete and he made a race out of it. Sadly, it looks like not enough people saw beyond the satarist and at the real man inside...but that's also the danger of someone trying to go from being a wit to having people take him serious.

Here's hoping there are some votes still to be totaled and he does pull it off.

[TwilightZone]

9. The exit polls look good.

Male (47%)
41% Franken
44% Coleman

Female (53%)
47% Franken
36% Coleman

Unless they're way off, Franken should end up ahead at the end of the night.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/individual/#mapSMN

[sampsonblk]

11. Where's the third party candidate in the exit polls??

[TwilightZone]

12. I left the third-party numbers off.

Sorry. They're available at the link.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

10. Extremely disappointed. Would have loved to reach 60 votes in the Senate. Here's to 2010.

[RL3AO]

13. There is still hope

St. Louis County (Duluth) is a very liberal county.

Franken currently up 53-33 in St. Louis County.

35,000 votes have been counted. The county has 134,000 registered voters. None, or very little of Duluth has been counted yet.

[krkaufman]

14. Isn't he effectively tied w/ Coleman? And there's a third-party candidate ...

... taking 8% of the vote?

And Franken isn't Obama.

[EconomicLiberal]

15. Franken doesn't have many strong areas left.

Hennepin was going to be his strongest county, and 78% of its precincts have reported, and he is still losing by around 10,000 votes.

This race is Coleman's.

[krkaufman]

16. Ow. Yeah, Coleman is up by 15k w/ 89% reporting. Ugh. n/t

[RL3AO]

17. BS. He has Duluth.

Duluth, a city of 86,000 is a very liberal city in the Democratic 8th district. IT HAS REPORTED ZERO VOTES.

[MichDem10]

18. Well they better report f'ing soon!

[GopherGal]

20. Don't count out Hennepin

Hennepin's a populous county which includes Minneapolis, where there were reports of lines at polls at closing (voters in line at 8 are allowed to vote), so will be late reporting. That 20% not yet reporting is probably around 100,000 votes. If Franken gets just 10% more of those votes than Coleman, that's a 10000-vote swing. (It's currently running about 52-35-13 Franken-Coleman-Barkley in Hennepin, so hopefully 10000 is a low-ball estimate.) And St. Louis county (Duluth) is only about 50% in.

Franken really needs good numbers in these two.

[bridgit]

19. It's not Franken it's Minnesota. Their 3rd party was pulling 12% going in...

I thought. Here's Coleman; duuph of the new millennium winning. Will Minnesota be the last to understand: The 3rd Party/Nader Effect?

[mzmolly]

21. If Franken loses it will be largely due to negative campaigning and the third party

candidate.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

22. There should be an automatic run-off or recount, right?

[RL3AO]

23. No run off. Auto recount if its within 0.5%