Posted by
Bryn T. Jones on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:44:42 PM
Remarkably, the Al Franken group has claimed that there are missing votes! At last count, just over 179, to be precise. Recently, a news anchor noted that these recounts historically favor Democrats. This little statistical anomaly hung out there with nary a head-scratch. You'd think that statistically speaking, excluding such nefarious things as voter fraud, these challenges would be a bit more equal in who they favor. If, in fact, the votes are so close that they need to double-check the results, why would they invariably favor the Democrats? Could it be that they are better at intimidation and lawsuit manipulation?
It is also somewhat strange that we'd trust biased human beings to hand-recount the ballots rather than run them all through the machines again. With hand-counting, couldn't two stick together, or some partisan hack drop a few in Franken's column? It is odd that the only 'new' votes that were found went to Franken. Statistically, wouldn't a number of them also go to Colman?
At the end of this, Franken may 'win' the seat, but not by getting elected. He will have wrested the seat from the winner on election day through means that will mark the rest of his career. Make no mistake, Al Franken is a madman. He holds no qualifications for making public policy. He is a lunatic on the fringe. So, the most disturbing thing about this election is that this contest is even close. I'm not making a case for Colman being the best man for the job. He's not stellar. But he looks that way when compared to Franken.