225 Days Later, Minnesota Still Waiting For A Senator
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It's been 225 days since the November 4th election, when Minnesotans first went to the polls to select their representative in the United States Senate. It's been another 165 days since January 3rd rolled around, when all of the other 2008 winners were sworn into office. But still, almost six months into the new year, residents of the Land of 10,000 Lakes await the seating of their second Senator. Despite setback after setback and an all-but-closed window of opportunity for victory, former Republican Senator Norm Coleman presses on in a Quixotic quest to keep his Democratic challenger, former commedian Al Franken, from taking his seat in the US Senate.
What's intriguing is that for a brief moment during the recount process when Coleman was still ahead, the beleagured Senator publicly urged Franken not to burden the voters of Minnesota with a lengthy recount process. And yet, here we are, nearly six months later, with nothing but a continued fight to show for the vat amount of time and money spent on this contest. What's evenmore interesting is that when the Coleman-Franken showdown is compared to another famous recount process- the Bush-Gore melee of 2000- it was Republicans who were publicly condemning Democrat Al Gore's efforts to have the courts weigh in on his election to the presidency.
What's intriguing is that for a brief moment during the recount process when Coleman was still ahead, the beleagured Senator publicly urged Franken not to burden the voters of Minnesota with a lengthy recount process. And yet, here we are, nearly six months later, with nothing but a continued fight to show for the vat amount of time and money spent on this contest. What's evenmore interesting is that when the Coleman-Franken showdown is compared to another famous recount process- the Bush-Gore melee of 2000- it was Republicans who were publicly condemning Democrat Al Gore's efforts to have the courts weigh in on his election to the presidency.
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