One Down, Two to Go!

I woke this morning to frigid temperatures, which made sense. If a Democrat could win the Senate race over Alaska's Ted Stevens, surely there must be snowballs all over Hades...

Still, you have to wonder about the nearly 50% of Alaskan voters who voted for the CONVICTED FELON! I mean, win or lose, he's going to jail!

But I'll take the seat.

Now two races are undecided - here in Georgia, we have a runoff coming on December 2nd between Saxby Chambliss, the Republitard Incumbent, and Jim Martin, the Democrat. This one will be determined by which side gets the most people to the polls. Don't forget that you can do advance voting for this, too, but I doubt we'll see a crush at the polls on 12/2. Flipping this seat would bring the Dems to 59 seats - one short of the 60 needed to avoid Filibusters from the right.

Which brings us to the potential number 60. Al Franken of Minnesota. That race is now in a recount, as Al is down by ~200 votes to Norm Coleman. I have no idea how this will turn out, as there will be that nebulous "intent" of the voter issue like we had in 2000 in Florida. In Minnesota, there are no dangling chads, but the scrutiny will be on the optical scanner forms. Just like those tests we took with a number two pencil back in the day - the little bubbles need to be filled in "just right" to get scanned properly. In the recount, it will be done by humans, so a partially filled bubble would be counted. Does that favor the left or the right? I have no clue. But I do want this to finally be "The Al Franken Decade"... Having read his books, he knows politics and the issues. Plus he's funny - we could use some of that....