SUBSCRIBE NOW WELCOME BACK. Do you want to continue reading where you left off? New Republic subscribers can pick up where they left off no matter which device they were previously using. SUBSCRIBE NOW

Go Home Could There Be A New Senate Election In Minnesota?

THE PLANK MARCH 6, 2009

Could There Be A New Senate Election In Minnesota?

BY EVE FAIRBANKS

That's what Norm Coleman's proposed, and so Minnesotans have taken a vote on whether they want a new vote. The result? A statistical dead heat, of course. What a nightmare.

--Eve Fairbanks

SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS

Show all 5 comments

You must be a subscriber to post comments. Subscribe today.

5 comments

It's only a nightmare if we give Coleman more credence than he deserves. Minnesota has already had an election and that election already has a winner. Honestly, if Al Gore had behaved like this, who knows where we'd be?

- miceelf

March 6, 2009 at 9:13am

You must be a subscriber to post comments. Subscribe today.

4 months since election day. I would be embarrassed for my state if I were from Minn.

- blackton

March 6, 2009 at 9:57am

You must be a subscriber to post comments. Subscribe today.

I was reading about this over at fivethirtyeight.com yesterday. Coleman's argument has all the seriousness of a five-year-old's tirade about the world's unfairness upon not getting a second helping of ice cream.

- janus

March 6, 2009 at 10:15am

You must be a subscriber to post comments. Subscribe today.

Well, Coleman issued the revote request as a double-dog-dare instead of a normal legal motion, so the Minnesota Supreme Court is all but required to order the revote. Unless any one of the justices is over the age of twelve.

- rhubarbs

March 6, 2009 at 10:48am

You must be a subscriber to post comments. Subscribe today.

Oy.  Oy vey.

- dylanposer

March 6, 2009 at 12:48pm

You must be a subscriber to post comments. Subscribe today.

SHARE HIGHLIGHT

0 CHARACTERS SELECTED

TWEET THIS

POST TO TUMBLR

SHARE ON FACEBOOK

Close