Franken not out yet

Yeah, the Associated Press jumped the gun by calling the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota for Norm Coleman while the votes were just a few hundred apart with nearly 3 million votes cast. They jumped the gun so much so that they have un-called the race. A wise decision due to the fact that a race which is less than 400 votes apart will go on to an automatic recount.

The big question is what this means for Al Franken. If he wins in the automatic recount in Minnesota, Minnesota will have a definitive Democratic majority representing it in Washington, D.C. If AL Franken wins, he can keep his condo here in Minneapolis.

If Norm Coleman wins, as he has already said according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press he has, he can attempt to move further up that list of America's most corrupt elected officials and instead of simply being the fourth most corrupt U.S. Senator as ranked by CREW, maybe he can move to fourth place overall. It's nice to have goals!

As the more up-to-date Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports, U.S. Senate hopeful Al Franken will exercise his right for a recount. Sure, it can drag things out in the election process during a campaign which has lasted a solid two years already but if we've learned anything it's that a more intense examination of the voting numbers can change things drastically.

Of course the biggest news isn't about the Jewish New Yorker (Coleman) being essentiall tied wtih the Jewish Minnesotan (Franken) but it's the fact that the northern Twin Cities is full of clinically insane voters. Yep, they re-elected batshit crazy U.S. Representative Michelle Bachmann. Yeah, that Michelle Bachman.



So, who will Michelle Bachmann feel up during the State of the Union address for the next two years?

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