Jim Baker's machinations on behalf of Bush in 2000 obviously weren't lost on Coleman. All's fair in love, war and politics, according the to the GOP, and we can find plenty of examples to support all three exemptions.

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Dismantle the Rabid Republican Attack Machine.
Return all the broken Voting Machines and get the Money back.
STOP Propaganda!
Shut Down FAUX NEWS!

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COUNT EVERY VOTE.

This election official in MN did fraud by withholding ballots.

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As well he should be. The fact that he is trying to stop recount efforts speaks volumes! You can BET if it were Franken who was ahead in the current vote count, Coleman would be screaming for a recount!

Funny how views change when the circumstances warrant. Coleman and the Republics are, and have always been, SORE LOSERS.

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Coleman didn't get the memo: "All legal strategies cancelled-- judges have all sprung their cages! Keep your head down and run for your life!"

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Coleman promtly claimed victory on Wednesday morning at a time when the vote tally showed him around 700 votes ahead. When his lead slipped down to 300 or so, he held a press conference calling for Franken to reject the recount and save Minnesotans the expense. A truly stupid argument since the recount is mandatory --the result is within our margin of error (1/2 of 1 percent)-- and three other offices are also close enough to require a recount. Remarkably he claimed that he would step aside if he was in Franken's position. I don't know who he thinks will believe that.

An additional problem was revealed by a reporter who was researching voter turnout at a polling place and overheard the Rep poll-watchers say that they had called in an interpreter. Turns out that the guy worked for the Coleman campaign. He claimed it was his day off (Sure, and his "friends" from work just invited him to hang with them at this polling place.)She tracked down half a dozen of the people he translated for and they told her interpreter they had been told to vote for Coleman but the reasons varied from person to person. When that allegation hit, the Coleman camp responded with accusations that Franken's campaign had done the same thing with Spanish speaking translators. Then several more paid Coleman translators have been claimed. It could be quite a mess, even once the votes have been correctly hand-tallied. Amusingly, it could end up with the US Senate. If there is cheating here, our laws boot the decision to the president of the US senate, whose decision is final. It is suppose to be a final failsafe in case of state-wide corruption, we expose our process to the nation as a whole and appeal for help determining a path to justice given what has occurred. We may see it come into play here for the first time.

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If Al Franken (who I adore) wins, it'll be like the icing on the cake!!

I am SO pulling for him. Coleman = same old Gross Old Perverts corruption.

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Al Franken is a horse's patootie but Norm Coleman is a sleazoid. The other two contenders were Ceresi, who won the landmark suit against the tobacco barons and Nelson-Pallmeyer, a professor at the U of MN. Nelson-Pallmeyer didn't have the money or name recognition to mount an effective state-wide campaign. Ceresi is very short statured and button down. He had the money, but judged that he could not compete against Franken. Sad for us in MN.
If we count the votes, it could very well be that we have chosen the horse's butt over the sleazoid. At least that is my hope.

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According to Minnesota law, a recount is mandatory when the vote is as close as this Senate election actually is. End of discussion. Wait for the official recount.

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Whether or not you believe Wellstone's death was an assassination, or just a freakishly convenient accident, he was set to win his bid for reelection--despite Coleman's huge support from his "chicken-hawk" mentors, Bush and Cheney. Wellstone's opposition to the Iraq War was a major stumbling block for the administration, and his reelection may in fact have blocked the "war" from ever happening. Therefore, the defeat of Coleman would be more then just another senate seat for the democrats; it would be the repudiation of an administration that has shown total disregard for human rights and that used every means to push it's petro-autocracy throughout the world. Go Al go!

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vote. That is why they keep saying that it is a republic and not a democracy.

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