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Kossack evandmiller makes an interesting catch:
Breaking news – the National Republican Senatorial Committee has given up on Norm Coleman! For the past few months, the NRSC has been pushing their visitors to a donate page supporting Coleman’s efforts. Now, with the most recent court decision going in Al Franken’s favor, it seems that the GOP doesn’t want to urge anymore of their supporters to fund a lost cause.
The fund-raising page for Coleman can still be accessed here, however it has been taken off the NRSC homepage and the only way to access it is by pointing your browser to the specific sub-domain.
In its place is this page asking for donations to the NRSC.
Visitors to the NRSC website can still go to the Minnesota Senate race page to get updates, however the “contribute” link directs visitors to the Norm Coleman campaign website displaying a “Error 404: File Not Found” message.
Verrrrry in-ter-est-ink, as Arte Johnson used to say. Let’s hope for their donors’ sakes that they handle credit card info better than do Norm’s people.
Now of course Norm has other revenue streams — or at least he did. And perhaps the NRSC may have just taken down the link temporarily. But if it stays down, I think that’s an indication that they’re not going to push this to the US Supreme Court. I suspect that some people in the NRSC have seen the polling that indicates that not only are even Minnesota Republicans getting ticked at Norm, but that fellow Republican and would-be presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty might, if he refuses to sign Al Franken’s election certificate, have a tougher time hanging onto his governor’s chair — and thus the right to save Michele Bachmann’s seat from going away in the redistricting to follow Minnesota’s certain loss of a seat after the 2010 census.
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Is it to much to hope that Norm actually concedes in the near future (today, for instance)?
Maybe. But clearly the NRSC is, uh, rethinking putting its eggs in Normie’s basket.
And, by the way, what’s the electoral map for the Senate look like in 2010? Any R seats up for grabs? If I was a Republican strategist, I’d be looking at those numbers, and not wasting money on a losing battle for an election held in 2008.
But then again, who know what those loonies are thinking?
This brings me to wonder how much GOP donor money from the state Coleman’s folly has drained. Will it hurt fundraising abilities of Republican candidates for the 2010 elections? I wouldn’t mind that kind of collateral damage.
Aren’t we there yet?
Not that I want this to drag out any longer but it does seem this link is working when I check the page at the NRSC. I also got the chance to take a survey which let me pick the culprit in the AIG bonus scandal, but for some odd reason, the only options were democrats in the blame category. Not very bipartisan of them.
Somethings you just gotta love…thanks for that tidbit.
so somebody in the repuglitard party pulled his head out of his ass long enough to smell TEH STUPID ???
he must not have liked the vision of the future he saw for the repuglitards
if they can’t win is a district that has a +70,000 repuglitard registration advantage, where can the repuglitards win ???
Norm ,get over it you lost !!
Start behaving like an adult , accept the fact that you are no longer a member of the US Senate!
Grow the fuck up you sore loser !!
The Repukes were bad winners ,but they are even worse losers!
AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Phoenix Woman and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:
As a native Minnesotan who still works in the state (for a few more weeks, anyway) and was raised in a left wing DFL household, I have been screamin’ across the St. Croix River ever since the election of Jessie the Deadbolt Ventura that the DFL hasta get it’s shit together and take the Independence Party down once and for all…don’t take Indie leaders like Tinklenberg or the bastard Dean Barkley who ran for Senate on the Indie line back into the DFL, go after the whole slimy bunch of ‘em and hang Coleman and Pawlenty around their necks until they stop talkin’.
The Republican Party is dead in Minnesota and has been for some time, but they have won some elections and managed to split off the “centerist” Dems in the same way the fascists have done it on the national scene in order to split Democratic constituencies and establish minority government. The DFL has nothing to fear from Tiny Tim Pawlenty if they take care of bidness and stomp the Indie Party out of existance…Pawlenty is toast in Minnesota and the only folks who don’t know it are the DFL leadership.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THERE IS NO COMPROMISING WITH FASCISTS!!
Clearly the best stragegy of all is to give Pawlenty all the rope necessary to hang himself, taking Bachman with him. He, Coleman, and Ms. Botox with then have time to see the country, floating on a raft Huck Finn-style down the Mississippi…
Read this at Daily Kos on 2010 Senate:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..e-Rankings
Basically looks as though the intelligence level in the Senate will increase significantly after 2010.
Minnesota is not “certain” to lose a House seat in the 2010 reapportionment.
Um, how do you figure that?
The Census Bureau’s population estimates have been pretty good in the last few decades. I haven’t looked at the numbers for Minnesota, but the old northwest has been losing population share over the past 30 years.
Verrrrry in-ter-est-ink, as Arte Johnson used to say
raincoat-clad Normie just tipped over on his tricycle.
Unfortunately, the link for Coleman is back….bottom right-hand corner….hhuumm…..
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell
This applies to you “Norm”
cuz that’s how he rolls…
And it’s esp. stupid given how well Coleman handled his donors’ money.
All this delay crap even in the face of sure defeat is just 100% pure obstructionism. It’s only for the political purposes of the creepy GOP, esp. nationally and not at all for the governance of MN or the nation. Phooey. It’s all about them.
Minnesota seems to be on the list for losing a congressional seat, but just barely and may retain it because of demographic factors such as the population shift to the South has slowed considerably in recent years.
Regardless of whether or not Minnesota loses a seat, it seems like Bachmann’s district, MN-6, stands a decent chance of being redrawn. It was obviously gerrymandered to favor republicans and there is no sense in having Washington County and Stearns County in the same district, they are nothing alike.
A-yep.