Coleman v. Franken Decided by the Minnesota Supreme Court,
unanimously in Franken's favor. Thanks to Barton Jacka for the pointer.
Coleman v. Franken Decided by the Minnesota Supreme Court,
unanimously in Franken's favor. Thanks to Barton Jacka for the pointer. |
(No opinion on whether the MN Supreme Court was legally correct here).
There was, but the whole point of the outcome of Bush v. Gore was that the recount should be stopped and the original results should stand.
Not quite. I think it allows Pawlenty the chance to issue it with an order coming later if he does not (assuming no federal court intervenes in the interim)
I would like to see a cite for an election where the republican was the loser in a close election and actually won, because I don't think it exists. It seems like the democrats know how to find just enough votes for their candidates to win.
Seems to me in close elections they should either have a run off between the two winners where there were viable third party candidates, or flip a coin.
Well, not quite. The Florida recount was stopped so that the winner could be judicially determined. And he was. Anyone who actually followed the reports of the Coleman challenge can appreciate that the real winners were his lawyers; $1M+ in fees for a lot of really bad work which bought a very long delay.
No, but Pawlenty was already on the record as saying he'd take what the Minnesota courts had determined to be the proper course of action without waiting for federal courts to weigh in.
And Coleman has announced he won't appeal anyway, so it's a moot point.
Then you can come up with an example.
Here's two from the first page of Google results:
Deborah Pryce, R-OH, won a recount for a US House seat in 2006 and retained her seat.
Louis Pate, R-NC, won a recount for a NC House seat in 2002, defeating the incumbed Democratic Speaker of the House and shifting control of the chamber to Republicans for only the fourth time since 1898.
"incumbent," of course. Sorry.
They had a professional wrestler for governor, and now a failed clown for senator.
Hey... Pee Wee Herman... if you are looking for a career in politics, check out Minnesota.
Louis Pate, R-NC
Neither of these work, since neither lost in the original count and then came back and won.
I googled what you suggested, and over the first three pages found no examples of a republican losing in the election count and then winning in the recount.
There have been multiple instances of a GOP candidate winning in the election day count, but then losing on the recount.
After a while, I start to have doubts that there aren't shenanigans going on among democratic led election boards.
If it is obvious to you, sitting at home in front of your computer, I wonder why the well-funded Coleman recount campaign couldn't find anything of this nature that would stand up in court(s)?
Perhaps you are right and Coleman was just too stupid to figure it out and get the goods on Franken. In which case, maybe he isn't smart enough to be a Senator.
And now they are getting Franken.
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