I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.<\/p>\n
But unlike way too many lefties the past eight years, I’m not going to disgrace myself by whinging about the results, or chanting “Selected Not Elected!”.\u00a0 Senator Franken is going to be a terrible joke, and the sooner he gets into office, the sooner the citizens of Minnesota can start realizing their error.\u00a0 Hopefully.<\/p>\n
But here’s the question Minnesotans (or at least Minnesotans who care about Minnesota and its future) need to ask themselves: how many Minnesotans do you think can actually, correctly explain how this election went from a 200+ vote Coleman victory eight months ago to a 300 vote collective humiliation of the whole stateac?<\/p>\n
That percentage\u00a0 – and I’d be amazed if it got into single-digits – should be the percentage of confidence you feel with this state’s recount system.\u00a0 Because if people don’t have confidence in their electoral system, how does <\/em>democracy survive.<\/p>\n (And before one of you lefties shrieks “then don’t undercut that confidence by dissenting from Mark Ritchie in any way!”, remember what you spent the past eight years doing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. But unlike way too many lefties the past eight years, I’m not going to disgrace myself by whinging about the results, or chanting “Selected Not Elected!”.\u00a0 Senator Franken is going to be a terrible joke, and the sooner he gets into office, the sooner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}