Today, the state canvassing board completed an important step in this process. I’m glad to be ahead, and as it appears that we’re on track to win, I want Minnesotans to know that I’m ready to get to work for them in Washington on Day One. We still need to ensure that Minnesotans whose absentee ballots were improperly rejected aren’t disenfranchised, but we are close to the finish line. And we should all be proud of our state’s electoral process, and grateful for the dedication of our public servants, from the state canvassing board down to elections officials at the local level.
This is fairly serious and I would be rather confident that Franken is not wanting to make the same mistake Coleman did by preemptively declaring victory. The numbers are there and the counting has been accurate, transparent and solid.
If Franken indeed wins, almost undoubtably Coleman will be a sore loser and find brand new reasons why the recount suddenly should be invalidated. Unfortunately for Team Coleman, the process has been so transparent, in the open and scrutinized heavily by the independent and mainstream media that it is very unlikely they’ll have anything relevant to contest.
That’s not to say they won’t try though. The right-wing parrot blogs are currently doing a clip-job of old quotes to try to create a non-existent “double ballot” issue — I presume Team Coleman will give them the dog whistle to start blogging about some other false “irregularity” soon.
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