We have a winner... maybe
The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered that Al Franken be certified as the winner of the November Senate race. Can we move on now? Minnesota has its Senator, right? Surely Norm Coleman and the Republican party aren't going to deny the state its senator any longer by taking this to the final stage, being the Supreme Court when already every stage of the way everyone has said that Franken won, even their Governor said ok if the courts say certify then I will and hey okay I guess yeah we need a senator already. Man imagine if we could have done this with FL. Seriously, it's almost the 4th of July holiday... November... 4th of July... no one seated in that seat. Tons of votes, major ones. Minnesota DESERVES to have this settled.
*edit* sorry technically they didn't order he be certified, they just declared he's won and said he's entitled to be certified. Since the Governor has said he'd do it if the courts ordered him to, I suppose since it's not actually an ORDER I guess the Republican party can say welllll it's not an order...
*edit 2* Coleman says he will "abide by" the ruling. So congrats to Franken, MN finally DOES have a second Senator -- well after they can swear him in.
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Oh yay! But isn't it about time for the next election anyway?! XD Kidding, slightly, but at this point I think the only ones who care are the Franken and Coleman campaign. I voted for Franken and I gave up months ago, for any type of resolution that wouldn't make MN look silly for how long it had been going on. I was kind of just hoping they'd duel it out, or settle it with a thumbwars or something like that.