Seventy-three percent of precincts, or 65.65 percent of all votes, have been recounted, according to the Minnesota secretary of state's office when recounting temporarily ended Saturday night. Coleman has questioned a total of 945 ballots while Franken has challenged 948. Full Story »
Posted by Mike LaBonte
This balances the statements from the 2 campaigns quite well, and gives me most of the numbers I need to understand.
Interesting: the Coleman statement on challenged ballots gives a few numbers, but no indication that the Franken challenges are unfair. The Franken statement cites examples of unfair Coleman challenges, but gives no numbers. What do these two have against creating a solid case?
Basic journalism about both candidates being equally anxious to win this contest. Franken's release of ballots questioned by the Republican because voters who voted for McCain also voted for Franken is interesting because it seems to indicate that Republicans don't trust Republican voters.
The pressure upon these two campaigns to declare a Republican winner is beyond intense, because the rout of Republicans in the latest election may mean they no longer can indulge in their favorite behavior: that of neocon's slavishly adhering to their mantra by obstructing any real social and political progress.
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