A run down<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Your mileage may vary.<\/p>\nDay 3 #1: Norm Coleman gets the vote
\nDay 2 #1:\u00c2\u00a0 Norm Coleman.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Put this in a mental file, and I’ll explain\u00c2\u00a0this as : this voter decided that he really wanted Bachman to be in the running but\u00c2\u00a0ended\u00c2\u00a0up settling for Coleman.
\nDay 2 #2:\u00c2\u00a0 Al Franken gets the vote.
\nDay 2 #3:\u00c2\u00a0 Ballot rejected.
\nDay 2 #4:\u00c2\u00a0 Norm Coleman gets the vote.
\nDay\u00c2\u00a01 #1:\u00c2\u00a0 Al Franken gets the vote.
\nDay 1 #2:\u00c2\u00a0 Accept the ballot, Norm Coleman gets the vote.
\nDay 1 #3:\u00c2\u00a0 Reject the ballot.
\nDay 1 #4:\u00c2\u00a0 Al Franken gets the vote.
\nDay 1 #5:\u00c2\u00a0 Al Franken gets the vote.\u00c2\u00a0 Just as the Coleman voter really wanted Bachman in the running, this Franken voter really wanted Lizard\u00c2\u00a0People to be in the running, but in the end… voted for Franken.\u00c2\u00a0 What is odd is that if the voter had filled out the “other box” for the write-in “Lizard People”, I would have been inclined to reject the ballot, but as he didn’t fill that one out, I just have to say he wants Franken.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not know who this one throws a bigger light of craziness — Coleman people like Bachman and Franken people like Lizard People.
\nDay 1 #6:\u00c2\u00a0 Ballot rejected.
\nDay 1 #7:\u00c2\u00a0 Norm Coleman gets the vote.
\nDay 1 #8:\u00c2\u00a0 Al Franken gets the vote.
\nDay 1 #9:\u00c2\u00a0 Dean Barkley gets the vote.
\nDay 1 #10:\u00c2\u00a0 Dean Barkley gets the vote.
\nDay 1 #11:\u00c2\u00a0 Reject the ballot.<\/p>\n
Mercy me.\u00c2\u00a0 What grabs you is the intellectual inconsistency in how the two sides, the Franken side and the Coleman side, argue over the challenged ballots.\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s how horse race partisan politics works: blinders on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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