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...state of Minnesota the election has yet to end. You may have heard about the MN senate race. You know, the former funnyman (and Harvard grad!) versus the former Democrat. You probably just thought to yourself…oh silly Minnesota. Well, today judges have declared Alan S. Franken '73 the new senator, but knowing Minnesota, the drama isn't over...
Class Day speakers in recent years have run the gamut from policymakers, including Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and former President Bill Clinton, to entertainers, such as Seth MacFarlane, the creator of hit television show "Family Guy," and comedians Al Franken '73 and Conan O'Brien...
That only fuels the suspicion, voiced by Franken, that the GOP wants to drag out Coleman's legal battle as long as it can to delay the Democrats from gaining another vote in the Senate, which would bring them even closer to a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority. "They're willing to let Minnesota have one Senator in order to delay my getting there," Franken recently told the Associated Press. For his part, Coleman has said he is "not in this to prolong it" but "to get it right" - though his decision to attend meetings with his former GOP colleagues...
William Beyer, 98, an Inver Grove Heights retiree, has his own solution to the electoral circus. "Let Coleman and [Franken] take a nice gold coin and flip it in the air," he says. "I don't know why they are monkeying around. They're never going to find out all the correct ballots." That may seem like an absurd idea. But in fact, Minnesota law provides that the state could resort to a coin flip if both candidates are tied. That happened in a 2008 race for mayor of Goodridge, a northern town here with a population of 98, after...
...Read "Franken vs. Coleman: Still Counting in Minnesota...