In Minnesota, Recounting Ballots Is Only The First Step »
Posted By TimALoftis 12 months ago in Political NewsMINNEAPOLIS — The only thing that might be longer than a bone-rattling Minnesota winter is the state's never-ending 2008 Senate race, which Jane Burton says is getting downright ridiculous.
After picking out her Carolina Fraser fir at the farmers market in north Minneapolis on Monday, Burton, a 59-year-old homemaker from Minneapolis, said that she might impose a new rule on Christmas Eve: No discussion of either candidate, Democrat Al Franken or Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.
Four weeks after Minnesotans cast 2.9 million ballots in an attempt to decide the costliest Senate contest in the nation, incumbent Coleman is clinging to a lead of 344 votes — with more than 92 percent of the ballots recounted as of Tuesday afternoon. Coleman began the recount with a lead of 215 votes.
On Tuesday, the Franken campaign said its internal count showed Coleman with a lead of only 50 votes. And Franken was expected to pick up more votes after officials in the Democratic stronghold of Ramsey County announced that 171 uncounted ballots had turned up.
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