I don’t know what he will do — my “guesser” goes one way one minute, and another the next. But I suspect he is getting massive pressure from all corners and in all directions. We’ve got a huge budget problem here in Minnesota, they have to cut 4-5 billion out of this year’s appropriations, and the Legislature just came in today to get sworn in, get organized, and start dealing with it. Pawlenty, Republican, faces two legislative houses that are solid DFL, so I assume the attention will now shift from a “decided” Senate Race to a profoundly difficult Legislative Session.

It might not be all that popular for Coleman to be spending oodles of money on his lost cause, when the financial problems are now center stage, and at least one aspect of this will be Senators who can be on station in DC as the Obama recovery plan evolves.

I was an observer at 3 county BOEs in Ohio 2004 fraudulent recounts. Minnesota was humanly perfect on all counts: by intent, by integrity, by law.

Th WSJ is also on board. The loathsome Dick Morris is hard at work; presumably he’s being paid.

Presumably the national attack is being coordinated by the Swiftboater Benjamin Ginsberg.

Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, Lott, and the WSJ have been flogging the “stolen election” idea for a month already, and we can expect that to explode. They won’t be able to keep Franken from being defeated, but they can put him under a cloud.

The truth is “Franken honestly won a very close election which was very carefully and honestly done”. The wingers are pushing “Franken stole the election”. My guess is that their goal is primarily just to spread doubt, so that the conventional wisdom becomes “Franken won a close election in court after a controversial and flawed recount. Some say he stole it”.

But it wasn’t a flawed recount. If that becomes the CW, the wingers win. It will just be one more small obstacle they’ve succeeded in putting in Obama’s path, partly just by changing the conversation over to the Franken “controversy” instead of, for example, preventing a depression or dealing with the Israel Palestine dispute.

The battle against the lies has just begun. My guess is that some of the Republican scum were pulling in their horns as long as it seemed that Coleman might win, but we should see them crawling out from under their rocks now. (And sorry for the mixed metaphor).

Perhaps the paperwork for a silent Filibuster is now growing too burdensome for poor Harry…to pass along to his staff.

Coleman’s been grousing about these ballots since last week. Now, unless there something over 400 votes for Coleman in the pile, how would it change the results if the state simply counted them? If the ballots went 60-40 Coleman, that would only be about a 130 vote gain, so it wouldn’t make a big difference in the outcome.

I’ve tried to find the specifics regarding these ballots, but then I figured somebody here would know what’s doing with them.