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ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: "Senator Al Franken" imminent: Norm Coleman loses AGAIN (4/1/2009 12:04:16 AM)
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ORIGINAL: subboi3382
well Gore gave up on it months before this but I never understood the argument against recounts, isn't a presidency or senate seat kinda important?
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ORIGINAL: DomImus
Coleman's actions are no different from the actions of the Al Gore camp in the 2000 presidential election but I'm guessing the libs would see that one differently.
Yeah, I agree. As much as i hate Coleman - and believe me, I do hate Coleman - I don't have a problem with the way he's handled this so far. He's doing what he needs to do. The vote was close enough, and there were enough legitimate questions about the totals and the way the votes were counted, that he had credible grounds for a recount and a court challenge of the results.
It's not just about him - it's about the half million people who did cast a vote for him to represent them in Washington for the next 6 years. I strongly disagree with those people, and have very little respect for their priorities and their politics, but every one of them has the right to expect their vote will be counted. There's a legal mechanism in place to handle these situations, and Coleman not only has every right to utilize those mechanisms, in my opinion he has an obligation to do so - an obligation to every person who cast a vote for him.
Now. Where he goes from here, well... that may be a different story. He's at a point where if he pushes it much further, he'll be crossing the boundary of reasonable remedy and entering the realm of self-serving obstructionism. I won't be disappointed when he takes it to the State Supreme Court, but when he loses there, it's time to quit. If he drags the bloody carcass of this mess to the front door of a Federal courthouse, my opinion is going to change. At that point, I'll be joining my fellow liberals in calling for his overinflated head.
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