Franken keeps gaining: Norm margin now 204
The Monday morning pre-recount numbers are moving, and the first adjustment is toward Al Franken. His 221-vote weekend deficit closed by 17 votes (to 204) as of 9:30 a.m.
Today is the last day for county canvass boards to meet, so the figure may shift quite a bit today
You can check any Braublog page for an up-to-the-minute margin report. It does the math for you based on the Secretary of State's web figures.
As always, hat tip to Jeff Rosenberg for the fine margin-calculating widget.
[Update: Of course, five minutes after I wrote this, the widget is showing an error message. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon.]
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thanks for the widget, seems to be one of the quickest ways to find out the current "score"....
http://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/20081104/ElecRslts.asp?CtyCd=27&M...
above link is to state's total from hennepin county.
this has been changing throughout today already, as hennepin certifies.
this morning's totals from hennepin's unofficial tally on their web site was 329,423 for franken and 237,684 for coleman.
as of this comment, franken had picked up 15 votes in hennepin county. i'm hoping that the county is just getting started and that this will shift at least a few hundred more towards Al.
ciao,
tom moore
Franken as Senator? When will we learn that people in the entertainment industry should not be elected? Ronald Alzheimers Reagan could not remember anything about the Iran Contra scandal. Arnold Hairbrain Schwarznegger wants to be recalled by the same people that started the recall against Davis that brought him to power. He would not win reelection today. George Murphy, a Hollywood actor, singer and dancer who was elected a United States Senator from California. He would fall asleep during Senate Hearings. Jesse Ventura, a wrestler. He was honest when he defined wrestling as choreography with violence. "Law & Order" star and former U.S. senator Fred Dalton Thompson, is a great actor, as long as he reads the scripts that the writers provided to him. But Al Franken? He attended Harvard College and graduated cum laude in 1973 with a bachelor of arts degree. Besides writing five New York Times bestselling books, three of which reached #1, including Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, In 2003, Franken served as a Fellow with Harvard's Kennedy School of Government at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.