Come On Minnesota Pull Through For Franken

[Parche]

[Maat]

1. Hang in there, Al!

Make 'em recount! Force a runoff!

[mvd]

2. It's not over!

What are the chances we can move ahead?

[HughMoran]

3. he lost by 700 votes?

Wow, that sucks.

[goddess40]

4. It's down to about 343 votes nt

[JohnnyBoots]

6. Law calls for a recount too.

[truthisfreedom]

5. He didn't lose, because that amount (less than .5%) triggered an automatic recount.

Begins mid-November.

[HughMoran]

8. Oh, cool - I just saw that the NYT had called it for Coleman & wasn't sure what was up

That's great - it's way too close!

[HughMoran]

10. Holy crap - I hit refresh on the NYT page and they "uncalled" it!!

I guess it's still open due to autometic recount - cool.

[Tatiana]

7. ***********SENDING POSITIVE VIBES FRANKEN'S WAY************

[ROh70]

9. How often do recounts succeed in overturning the original result?

I'm not hopeful.

[myrna minx]

13. We have optical scanning for our tallies. A hand count will bring a more accurate count,

especially for the folks who, instead of "filling in the bubble" either put an "x" through the oval or circled the oval. I think Franken can win this with an accurate recount.

[susanwy]

11. Does anyone know

the status of:

Provisional Ballots
Absentee Ballots


???

[elocs]

dupe

[elocs]

12. If it does turn out that Franken has lost,

I hope there is not a lot of complaining or accusations that the election was stolen. It is possible for a Republican to honestly beat a Democrat. Minnesota has honest elections and it is very possible that the third party candidate did take more votes from Franken than from Coleman.

[No Elephants]

14. We're pulling for ya, Al. You go, Guy!

[Hieronymus]

15. Coleman was speaking a few minutes ago ... seems there might be a runoff...

He made it sound like it was up to Franken, and would cost sooo much.

[damntexdem]

16. Automatic recount.

Hope lives.