01-08-2009, 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by JollyRoger
Actually, it was the Jesse Ventura candidate who put Franken in the Senate, it was a three way race, between the GOP, the Dems and the Flakes. I think the real core problem with this mess is that unlike most states, MN doesn't provide for a run off election if one candidate does not receive over 50 percent of the votes. A runoff between Franken and Coleman would have settled the thing to everyone's satisfaction. In the end tho, I doubt that the MN voters will be unhappy, because 2/3's of them voted for someone other than Coleman, so most of them didn't want the guy as their senator anyway.
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No, if Barkely (who ran under the same party as Jesse was) did not run or you could not vote for him, Franken wins in a landslide. Most of the independant votes go to Franken, not Coleman. So if Coleman ends up in office (slim to none chance, thankfully) it will be Jesse's candidate that put him there.
Look at these totals-
Franken, with 1,212,431 votes, and Coleman, with 1,212,206 votes.
225 votes seperate them with 2.9 million votes cast on that day. Truly staggering. I believe Barkely had somewhere around 20% of the votes.
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