So what are you doing to try to change the Republican party? How many people within your party see things the way you do, Danthe”Man”.

“But this is six long years of wondering if the person we sent to the Senate was any more valid of a winner than had we flipped a coin.”

Somehow, Republicans were able to see past this “wonder” when Bush won in 2000.

How could anyone be surprised that both sides are dug in for the long haul with the fillibuster proof margin in the Senate hanging by a thread? A re-vote would decide it once and for all. Do you think either side of a losing verdict might appeal to a federal level? In hind sight, the decision to hold the recount all accross the state (a money saving move), using different criteria has put this in the mess it is. Neither side will believe justice has been served with the jugdes decision.

But we don’t know that Franken won. We don’t know that Coleman won.

If this was a House election, no big deal. We’re already 1/2 way to the next campaign. But this is six long years of wondering if the person we sent to the Senate was any more valid of a winner than had we flipped a coin.

didn’t like it. In fact, I only voted for Bush once. I’ll let you guess which time. However, the fundamental issue is different. Bush’s margin in the electoral college, when it was all said and done, was a full percentage point, so it is hard to compare. His margin was about 100 times greater than the margin we’re talking about here, and we all agree that 2000 was close.

Yeah, yeah, I know Gore won the popular vote. I have a problem with the electoral college, too.

I just have problems with elections. Oh, for the days of 2006, when Klobuchar won with 60%. There is some good closure to hearing the “thud” of a good stomping, even if it is your candidate who loses.

Hogwash. Franken won, and Norm can’t show an anomaly large enough to show he was the winner. Franken should take the seat and stay there, instead of making up new rules as we go along.

Given that we’re the #5 taxed state per capita, I’m surprised there wouldn’t be money in the system to cover it. Where does all the money go?

I’m not averse to being the 5th highest tax state. But it sure doesn’t feel like we get the 5th highest level of benefits.

How did you feel about Bush/Gore? Did you feel this way about that race?

Let Franken take this seat. For two years.

Have another election in 2010, a full election with (very likely) new candidates from the other parties. This election was “won” by such a statistically insignificant figure that at worst we’ll send the wrong guy to Washington, and at best we have someone who Minnesotans preferred by a fraction of a hair. Hardly a mandate.

Give Franken his due - give him two years of setting policy. If he is that good, he’ll be a shoe-in in 2010. It will still keep our Senate elections staggered by two years.

And with it, create a permanent law stating that if a Senator is ever elected by a margin that is less than one tenth of one percent over the runner up, that seat will be held for two years.

I’m all for sending Franken to DC and getting this over with. I’m not all for making Minnesotans spend a full six years wondering if the system was accurate down to the thousdands-of-a-percent, which is what it would have to be to get this one right.