The big story on the recount so far, almost the only story, is the noisy Coleman media campaign, which has convinced a fair number of Americans (mostly outside Minnesota) that the election is being stolen. The truth is that the Minnesota recount process is spelled out in detail and has been well organized and well executed so far. The only reason there’s any noise is that the election has been unbelievably close.

Digby has reported on how the Republicans can win a close election by putting pressure on the courts and other monitors. This is Coleman’s playbook. He’ll stink up the place until he wins.

If the election is undecidable and remains contested, the Senate will vote to seat one candidate or the other. The Democratic Senate should vote to seat Franken, the same way a Republican Senate would vote to seat Coleman. The Republicans will scream about that, but we should laugh at them.

Anyway, the big game now is the media game. The recount is mostly routine, and the legal challenges are for the judges, but Coleman is playing the media hard.

several counties are still counting and a handful haven’t even started yet.

Interesting. What are those counties waiting for? A better sense of how many votes separate a democrat from his seat in Congress?

As the wolf would have said to Riding Hood: “the better to count the remaining ballots with.”

Requiem for a Maverick

John McCain ran one of the most incompetent, schizo campaigns in history — and for that we owe him big-time

Election night at the Biltmore in Arizona is a hilariously dismal scene, like a funeral for a family member nobody liked, who died owing everyone money…

The big problem with election irregularities and fraud is that they don’t use just one method but 10-15 methods spread across a state. So when someone tries to investigate and fight it, it looks like conspiracy wacko tin foil hat time vs say in county X they one thing and county Y they another…..

I happen to live in a district in AZ where the ballots were seized by the FBI in 2006 over a GOP primary…… funny how they are now trying to fight election crimes.